No. 1054, 
ALSTR(EMERIA PULCHELLA, 
Class. Order. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
A native of Chili. We raised it about 
four years since from seeds, received from 
our very excellent friend General Paroissien. 
It lowered during the months of May and 
June, having been constantly preserved in 
the greenhouse: we found it thrive best in 
large sized pots, and in a mixture of peat 
earth, loam, and rotten dung, in equal pro- 
portions, but we have not yet succeeded in 
propagating it. 
The stems were three or four feet in 
height, and the flowers are exquisitely 
beautiful. = 
By thousands of such agreeable tokens 
does God set forth His kind intentions of 
promoting our innocent delight. Every 
thing in some degree evinces His generous 
regard for our happiness; but nothing so 
much as His most benign command to love 
Him with all our utmost powers and affec- 
