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he landed on an uninhabited island, about three miles long and one 

 wide ; and on one side of the cove, which they named Saint Thomas, 

 they erected tents for the men and a wooden house for the captain. 

 The narrator says, that in front of this house there were twenty 

 splendid specimens of the Yucca gloriosa, growing from 20 to 25 feet 

 high, a beautiful collection of shrubs, growing among which were 

 splendid plants of Cactus, both red and yellow. In the woody part 

 of the island were a quantity of climbing plants ; and one among 

 the rest was a beautiful Scarlet Passion Flower, which bore its blooms 

 in clusters, much like the nature of the scarlet Bean. 



Now, perhaps, some of your readers may be able to give a descrip- 

 tion of these two beautiful things, the Yellow Cactus and Scarlet 

 Passion Flower, and if either or both are to be got in England. I 

 have seen a dingy-red Passion Flower, but nothing that will in any 

 way answer the description here given. 



ARTICLE VI. 

 FLORICULTURAL GLEANINGS.— No. 10. 



BRIEF REMARKS ON THE PROPERTIES OF THE TULIP, &c. 

 IN REPLY TO THE QUERY OF « A JUVENILE FLORIST." 



BY MR. WILLIAM HARRISON, SECRETARY TO THE FELTON FLORISTS* SOCIETY. 



Of all the various beauties of creation that have engaged the at- 

 tention of man, and commanded the care of the competing florist in 

 particular, the Tulip has elicited the greatest degree of admiration from 

 the remotest period of its history, through the fluctuating speculations 

 of the Tulipomania of Holland, to the more rational collection of the 

 " Juvenile Florist " of the present day. It is pleasing, therefore, to 

 find in the present progressive state of floriculture, that the taste for 

 the beauties of the Tulip is spreading far and fast over our native 

 isle. I for one rejoice in this, for surely there is nothing in creation 

 so lovely, so varied, and magnificent as a fine collection of Tulips. 

 It is true, that the lover of nature's charms may feel happy on the 

 top of an eminence, where the prospect displays to him the im- 

 mensity of the grasp of an Almighty hand ; he may almost consider 

 himself wrapt in an Elysian feeling when near the foaming cataract, 

 listening to its eternal roar, while the sickening cares of a fluctuating 

 world are left far behind him as he throws himself down on nature's 



