No. 629. 
BLETIA PALLIDA. 
Class, Order, 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
This is supposed to be a native of the 
West Indies. The flower stem is about two 
feet in height, bearing twelve or more flowers, 
which open two or three atatime. The 
leaves are nearly a foot in length; they, as 
well as the bulb, have a great resemblance 
to the Bletia verecunda. It flowered with 
us in February, in the stove, in which it re- 
quires to be constantly preserved. The soil 
should be loam and peat, and it may be 
increased by separating the bulbs. It pos- 
sesses much beauty. How kind must the 
Great Creator be in contriving such elegance 
for the delight of man! Man, to whom His 
bounty is so manifest in every thing, but 
most of all in the gift of the Holy Scriptures, 
the fountain of all true wisdom and solid 
consolation, of which the poet so patheti- 
cally sings, 
** Where should hens sat WECER o’er his woes, 
e dying, trem close, 
Where the ae ra forsaken, and oppress’d, 
The thousands whom the world forbids " rest, 
Where ana they find oie comforts at an end 
The Scripture yields) or ping to find a friend?” 
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