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hence is peculiar. The representation is of a plant plucked in 

 the Garden of Gethsemane, just under the cliffs of the Mount 

 of Olives. But it is plentifully scattered through the plains of 

 Central Palestine. 



The Anemone common in Palestine is a beautiful little 

 plant, with red-petaled flowers and dark stamens, short and 

 closely set together. No flower varies more than this in size 

 according to the cultivation : some flowers are in diameter only 

 half an inch, though others, if cultivated in rich soil, with 

 care, will attain to the diameter of a large hundred-leaved rose; 

 but they are never double like the rose, and the color is a 

 darker and duller red than that of the Adonis. 



The poppies are beautiful, particularly a yellow poppy, which 

 is seldom found; but one specimen in my possession has re 

 tained its color unchanged. A method of preserving the color 

 of such flowers, adopted with wonderful success, consists in 

 laying the leaves several hours between slips of bibulous paper, 

 to extract all the dew or rain, and then carefully pressing the 

 flower with a very warm flat-iron till the leaf is perfectly dry. 

 The more thoroughly the moisture has been extracted, the 

 longer will the color remain. 



We have now completed our list. Many modern flowers, 

 and many ancient ones not. named in Scripture, might be 

 added. Some belong to trees, however, which would require 

 another work, the present having reference only to plants. 

 The time may arrive when some one will be found com 

 petent and at leisure to visit the land and write a volume 

 which would be a large one upon the hitherto unmentioned 



