42 THE FLORIST. 



superstitious fear ; though the temperature, which had fallen to 38°, 

 was low enough of itself to make thinly-clad people's teeth chatter. 

 The wished-for morning brought a clear sky, and the opportunity 

 of lighting a good fire; and a young man who had joined us the day 

 before, swinging his lasso over the lowest bough of one of the trees, 

 got up into it, and several branches, mth their colossal fruit, gathered 

 that morning on the mountain of Quillay-Leuvu, have fortunately 

 found their way to Germany." 



The reader will bear in mind, that the date of this excursion of Dr. 

 Poeppig's is 1828, at which time Chili was in a very unsettled state, 

 and the southern province much annoyed by predatory incursions of 

 the Indians. He was far from foreseeing the abundance in which 

 the Araucaria would be propagated in England; but mentions, as 

 the reason why the first seeds brought from Valparaiso did not grow, 

 that they had been bought in the market, and had been roasted. The 

 Doctor did not extend his journey farther southward, but visited 

 Peru, and crossing the Andes, descended the rivers HuaUaga and 

 Maraiion, and returned to Europe from Para. 



Mediterraneus. 



In my communication respecting Lapageria rosea, " WTZgenial" is 

 misprinted " co?igenial." May in Chili is the beginning of winter, 

 answering to our November. 



THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A POT-ROSE. 

 Chap. V. and last. 



I AM washed and dressed FOR THE SHOW JOURNEY TO CHISWICK 



ARRFS^AL and INCIDENTS THEREON RESULTS OF THE SHOW COJIPANY 



MY RETURN MORE COMPANY AT HOME THE PHILOSOPHER STUDY 



OF MANKIND, AND BUTTERFLIES CONCLUSION. 



Early on the morning preceding the show, John and Jacob came in 

 and selected ten of us : I need hardly say that he chose such as were 

 in fullest and finest bloom ; and it was highly gratifying to me 

 to find myself one of the first fixed upon. I was carried into the 

 shed to be washed, dressed, and packed ; my leaves were sponged, 

 my shoots carefully tied up, and I was then packed in a covered van 

 with my companions, who had been similarly treated, and delivered 

 over to the charge of Jacob, who John told ten times over to let old 

 Dobbin walk gently, that he might not shake us. Notwithstanding 

 this precaution on the part of John, I found myself, as usual, none 

 the better off for being transferred from his care; Jacob, though 

 clever and attentive, was young, and so elated Avas he with this his 

 first journey to Chiswick, and the auspicious circumstances attend- 

 ing it, that, unknown to John, he took his cornopsean with him ; and 



