No. 838. 
NEOTTIA SPECIOSA. 
Class, Order, 
GYNANDRIA  MONANDRIA. 
This is from the West Indies; it conse- 
quently requires to be kept at all times in 
the stove. It produces its flowers with us 
during the winter season: they are of a fine 
rich colour, and very durable. It may be 
increased, though slowly, by offsets from 
the root, and should be potted in vegetable 
earth, with a mixture of sand. 
To view such an object, as well indeed 
as every thing around us, always with a 
reference to the great and glorious Creator, 
is a happiness indeed; nor shall we at the 
close of life have ever reason to say, “ The 
Author of our being did not deserve all this 
from us. Less diligence, less fidelity, less 
zeal than this, might have beenan equivalent 
for the blood which was shed for our re- 
demption. A part of our hearts, a part of 
our time, a part of our labours, might have 
sufficed for Him, who hath given us all our 
powers, for Him who hath delivered us 
from that destruction, which would have 
made them our everlasting torment, for 
Him who is raising us to the regions of à 
blissful immortality.” 
