HOUSELEEK. 



Varying as it does in colour, all the different kinds are 

 brought at once before us by this half line from the story 

 of Rimini : 



-" the suckle's streaky light." 



HOTTENTOT-CHERRY. 



CASSINE MAUROCENIA. 



RHAMNEJE. PENTANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 



Named Maurocenia by JLinnaeus, in honour of Franc. Morosini, the 

 Venetian senator ; who had a fine garden at Padua. 



THIS shrub bears a white blossom, which opens in July 

 and August, and is succeeded by a fruit of a deep purple 

 colour, from which the plant takes its familiar name. This 

 shrub retains its leaves all the year : they are crisp and of 

 a fine green, and when full of fruit, the plant is extremely 

 handsome. Being a native of the Cape of Good Hope, it 

 will not bear our winters abroad, but should be housed 

 towards the end of September, and placed abroad again 

 towards the middle or end of May. It must be sparingly 

 watered : once a week in winter, but in dry summer weather 

 three times. 



HOUSELEEK. 



SEMPERVIVUM. 



CRASSULACE^2. DODECANDRIA DQDECAGYNIA. 



French, joubarbe des toits [roof Jove's beard] ; la grande joubarde 

 [great Jove's beard] ; jombarde; artichaut sauvage [wild artichoke.] 

 Italian, sempervivo. English, Houseleek; Jupiter's-beard ; Ju- 

 piter's eye; Bullock's-eye ; Sengreen; Aygreen; Live-ever; in the 

 northern parts,, Cyphel ; perhaps from the Anglo-Saxon, Sinfulle. 



THESE plants appear like a collection of large, glossy, 

 green roses, of a heavy, leathery substance. Some per- 

 sons admire and are very curious in them ; others despise 



