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of soda, 01 common salt, lias been known to 

 give the blue to the hydrangea ; but on no one 

 of these can any certain dependence be placed. 

 Inglis says that this tinge is very general in the 

 flowers of this plant in the isle of Jersey. The 

 hydrangea is there seen grooving as a shrub at 

 every cottage door, or in one of those gardens 

 which are always planted by the houses of that 

 island. It is often twelve feet in circumference 

 and five in height, and is tall and branching 

 enoiagh to form a shade, ixnder which one might 

 find shelter from the sun of August. " These 

 beautiful shrubs," says Inglis, " here almost as 

 trees, form the avenues in the neighbourhood ; 

 and at the season in which they are covered with 

 their large blue flowers, the effect is indeed most 

 captivating. I have nowhere seen the hy- 

 drangea so luxuriant in growth as in the channel 

 islands, and the flowers are most commonly 

 blue, not pink, as we are accustomed to see 

 them in England." 



As the different flowers, called everlasting 

 flowers, bloom during this and the two following 

 months, they may here be noticed together. 

 The yellow ilower, called love everlasting, has 

 been long knowm to botanists as the eastern 

 everlasting, (GnajjJiaImm orientale,) but it is 

 now very generally included in the genus 

 heUchrijsum. It grows wild in abundance on 

 some of the mountains of Asia, and the pilgrims 

 who visit the flowery Carmel, and the lofty 

 Lebanon, gather it from their sunny plopes, as 

 memorials of their pilgrimage. Another kind 



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