YCHNIS CORONATA. 



Native of China, introduced in 1 770, by 

 Dr. I'otlurgill. It is a beautiful herbaceous 

 plant, and although tolerably hardy, flowers 

 more perfectly when kept in a greenhouse 

 during the summer, through the greater 

 part of which its blossoms are produced. 

 It may be increased by separating the roots 

 in spring, or by cuttings of the stems : the 

 soil should be peat and sand. 



In this reviving season, when in a more 

 peculiar manner every thing around us 

 conspires to prove the gracious and benign 

 care of the Almighty over our real comfort 



yield ourselves anew, with humble, calm, 

 and unreserved confidence, to the Lord, 

 whose every act is but love and goodness to 

 His creatures. How tenderly does our 



