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•sdge of our ancestors. It enables us to make a new comparison 

 iltween their knowledge and ours. 



CReVTie Horticole, Paris, 1854. Extracts, translated by H. Meigs.] 



SALVIA lANTHINA. 



This beautiful sage is much like our sahia-splendens. It is 

 •ailed lanthina, from the greek word lav^ivo?, meaning a violet 

 #[)lor. It grows about forty inches high ; the flowers and their 

 teracts are all violet color. 



This beautiful plant belongs to a group of species, which are 

 ^cuJiar to Mexico and Peru. This lanthina flowers in autumn; 

 ii is easily multiplied from its cuttings. It is well to keep it during 

 winter in conservatory, and set it in a good exposure in May. 



AZALEAS OF INDIA. 

 This family bears the name of Rose tree, viz: Rhododendron, 

 greek for Rose tree; and the following varieties are known, viz: 

 Feryassoni refulgens, Rotundifolia (round leaved), Concinna 

 (neat), Mutabilis, Queen Louise, with white flower; Distincta, 

 Tomlinii, Puniceum, Danielsianum, Bowerii, Salopensis, Coro- 

 Kata, Magnifica, Trotteriana, Apollo, Decora, Augusta aurantiaca. 

 Surlingtonii, Rosea elegans, Alstonii, Fulgens, Macranthum, 

 A^alea-macrantha, Chelsonii, Watsonii, Exquisita rosea, Extranei. 

 0upid, Dilecta, Tenella, Cardinalis, Murrayana, Duke of Devon- 

 aWre, Frostii, Picturato, Azalea indica lateritia, Variegata, Alba 

 jffdens, Alba lutescens suprema, Illustris, Superba, Beauty of 

 Seigate, Obtusum, AmcBnum, Squamata, Calabynum, Simsii, Ra- 

 mentaceum, Championse, Linearifolium, Calleryi, Mucronatum, 

 Ikoureiroanum, Reticulatum, Vittatum, Punctata, Dealii, Agero- 

 MAta, Narcissiflorum, Ledisolium, Scabrum. — 63 varieties . 



NEW USEFUL PLANTS. 

 A kind of potato is called by the natives Wabesassim. It re- 

 «s"mbles the common potato ; it is mealy, when boiled, and grows 

 mxlj in wet clay ground, about one foot and a half deep. The 

 •a-ane potato is of the same kind, but inferior in quality. The 

 Indians use these for food as well as the Memomim and another 

 Isi^ng and slender root, called Watappinee. Probably this is the 



