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LL the species of numulus, or 

 monkey Hovver, as it is verv often 

 eiilled, of -w'liieli there are ahout 

 twenty known, are natives of 

 tiie New World, and for the 

 most part oi its western coasts, 

 tlieir ranye beinfj;- fn.)m Columhia 

 in tile north, to C'hih, sontli of 

 tile ei[iuitor. They are all niois- 

 ture-lovino- plants, and therefore 

 in i-ulti\'atin^' theni tliat must 

 he eonsidered. They are, how- 

 ever, so aeeommodatintJ- that 

 almost any kind of soil will suit 

 them, if supplemented hy the 

 water-pot ; but they like g'oc.nl 

 living, nevertheless, and line 

 specimens cannot be grown 

 loamy soil. The plant before 

 us may be treated as a hardy perennial, and left out to 

 take care of itself in the open l.iorder; or it may be 

 treated as an animal, and will flower the same season if 

 the seed is sown in March. But lietter still is to treat 

 it as a greenhouse plant, raising a fresh sti.ick every year 



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