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over four inches long, of a bright green on top, and below Kaarked 

 with brownish spots ; these leaves form a collar all around the bouquet, 

 which is formed on the end of each branch. One would believe, from 

 the' Epiphytic growth of this plant, that it must be difficult, if not im- 

 possible, to cultivate it. But this is an error, for as Lindley remarks, 

 rationally, that the Epiphysis^ (Parasitic), manner of its growth, 

 reduces the matter to mere drainage ; and that as it grows at the 

 elevation of 2000 metres, where ground is at times covered with snow, 

 it will flourish in open air, in our temperate latitudes, &c. 



Immediately after the Rose tree Dalhousy, we place the Silva one, 

 which, although it flowers are about one third smaller, has leaves often 

 nearly a foot long by 4 inches wide. Its bouquets, formed of numer- 

 ous corolla combined, of a snow white, attain the size, nearly, of a 

 man's hand. 



By its habitat (home) at 2000 metres high, we suppose that it will 

 do as well in France as the orange does. 



The Falconer rose-tree (R. Falconeri) presents another order of 

 beauty. This does not shine by enormous development of its flow- 

 ers, but by its tree like dimensions, by its figure, and also by its foli- 

 age, which surpasses in grandeur the preceding species. Figure to 

 yourself a group of stems rising erect, or some of them bending, to 

 the height of from twenty-two to twenty-six feet, with proportional 

 sizes, some branches forming a sort of head crowned at top with up- 

 right large leaves of a leathery character, like those of the Magnolia 

 macrophylla, (large-leaved magnolia,) all this is terminated with a 

 spherical bouquet of flowers, close together, of almost a pure white; 

 thi^ we have some idea of this majestic species. It is useless to say 

 that this is not a parasite like the Dalhousy. 



But what shall we say of the bearded rose-tree, (R. barbatum,) 

 which launches off its branches at the height of forty to fifty feet 

 high, with their tufts of green foliage which ero^vn voluminous bou- 

 quets of red flowers. 



