No. 613. 
"HIBISCUS ROSA-SINENSIS flava.” 
Class. Order. 
MONADELPHIA POLY ANDRIA. 
A native of China, where its several 
varieties are much cultivated, for the beauty 
of their flowers ; with us it succeeds best in 
the stove, and when planted in the ground 
continues to flower for several months in 
spring and summer : it is easily increased 
by cuttings, and the soil should be loam 
and peat. 
The present kind was first introduced by 
the late Gilbert Slater, Esq. of Walthain- 
stow, a gentleman of whose zeal in iatro- 
ducing new plants we have already had oc- 
casion to speak. It were much to be wished 
that more persons who have opportunities 
would follow in the same course, and thus 
add to the living treasures of their country. 
Why, as the intrepid traveller Humboldt 
so feelingly asks, « why have not the names 
of those been every where preserved, who 
instead of desolating a land, have first en- 
riehed it with useful and valuable plants 
