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Marantas. — There are no plants which prove more attractive in the hot- 

 house than those to which this notice is devoted. 



The family is a large one, and includes many ornamental plants. They are 

 remarkable for the permanency of their leaves ; the foliage being smooth, hard, 

 and polished, and many varieties beautifully variegated with colors, which look as 

 if they were painted in oil, and varnished. It is this glossy beauty which renders 



them conspicuous in the hot-house, and enables them to rival plants with softer, 

 less-permanent foliage, but of more brilliant colors. 



We well remember the admiration with which we first saw Marattta alba and 

 rubra lineata, varieties now almost lost in the host of showier kinds which recent 

 explorations have given us. 



Maranta Veitcheana, the subject of our cut, is one of the newest and finest 

 "new varieties," and is thus described in "The Florist : " — 



" It is a stout, free-growing herb, attaining the height of two feet or upwards , 



