76 Dielytra Spectahilis. 



sent home, or rather which he brought home, for he accom- 

 panied his last packages, numbering in all eighteen, which 

 were filled with plants. These Avere all well cared for in the 

 garden of the London Horticultural Society, and as they were 

 mostly duplicated, only two or three, and those of no great 

 value, were lost. This Dielytra soon came into bloom, and 

 proved to be such a beautiful thing that it was rapidly mul- 



Fig. 5. Dielytra spectabilis. 



tiplied and distributed, and now, only six years from its in- 

 troduction, we find it in almost every nursery catalogue in 

 England, and in many fine collections in our own country. 

 • Last spring it flowered in great beauty in the nurseries of 

 Messrs. Winship & Co., and in the amateur collection of 

 Mr. J. Jackson, of Boston, and specimens exhibited -by these 

 gentlemen at the hall of the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 



