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where I saw it growing vigorously nearly a year ago, in was first discovered in Hong Kong about thirty years a»o, 



the temperate house. where there were only one or two plants, and it had not 



BartheaChinensis is a rare and beautiful plant, first named been seen in quantity until I found it a few years ago on 



Dissochceta Barthei by the late Dr. Hance, but it is now the hills of the mainland at an elevation of three thousand 



considered a new genus. It is a shrubby plant, with feet, 



brownish-green, oval, elliptical leaves two to three inches Enkianthus quinqueflorus is greatly prized in south 









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Fig. 3S. — An old Sassafras-tree on Long Island. — See page 211. 



long and one and a half inches broad. Its flowers, of China, where it is called the New Year Flower, as it 



which there are three or four bunched at the ends of the is expected to blossom at the time of the Chinese 



branches, are two inches in diameter, white shaded with New Year. Great difficulty is experienced by the au- 



pink. The petals have a waxy texture, and I feel sure thorities in Hong Kong in suppressing the cutting of 



that it would find appreciation as a greenhouse-plant. It this plant, since native shopkeepers and householders fill 



