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after by the attractions of new kinds, Milton's beautiful lines 

 should have embalmed it in the memory of every lover of 

 plants : — 



" By dimpled brook and fountain brim, 

 The wood nymphs, decked with daisies trim, 

 Tlieir merry wakes and pastimes keep." 



Heltotropium Immortalite de Louise Marie. — A new 

 variety (with a long name,) raised at Liege, and named irt 

 honor of the late Belgian queen. It blooms more profusely 

 than any other heliotrope. The leaves are small, roundish, 

 and the plant somewhat of a drooping habit, similar to those 

 the Romans placed on the graves of the dead. The cymous 

 heads of flowers are large, and each blossom green at the 

 centre, emblematical of hope, surrounded by a crown of gold, 

 emblem of holiyiess, and five rays of the border present the vir- 

 ginal whiteness of the celestial stars, with this peculiarity, that 

 here the flowers, it is stated, have the peculiar fragrance of 

 the violet and wall flower, during the period of their progres- 

 sive changes. 



Deutzia gracilis. — We copy in another page an interest- 

 ing account of the great exhibition at Ghent. It will be seen 

 that a plant of this new Deutzia was one of the most beauti- 

 ful in the exhibition, and attracted particular attention from 

 the manner in which it was cultivated. 



AcHiMENES picTA. — This bcautiful species is grown tO' 

 great perfection at Kew. The plants are placed in pans or 

 boxes, about eight inches deep, and eighteen across, in loam, 

 rotten leaf mould, and a liberal sprinkling of small bits of 

 charcoal. The stems grow three feet high. 



169. Uge^nia u'gni Hook. Myrtilla. [Myrtacea.) Chiloe. 



A half hardy shrub ; growin? three feet high ; with pale rosy flowers ; appearing in spring ; in- 

 creased by cuttings; cultivated in loam, leaf mould, and sand. Bot. Mag., 1852, pi. 4626. 



A very pretty heath-like looking plant in its flowers, but 

 with the foliage of the myrtle ; the petals are incurved, and 

 form a kind of globe. The leaves are opposite, small, and 

 the flowers axillary all the way up the terminal shoots. 

 In England it has proved quite hardy ; but probably with us 



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