'I'KE HELTOTROPE. 



JJr/'o/ropi/(in cor;/htlw^^niH. 



HE heliotrope is iu some t'onn 

 or other one ot the most aiieieiil 

 of Howers ; but the one before 

 us, being a native of Peru, is (jf 

 neeessity modern, its lutroilue- 

 tion dating' from the year LSOH. 

 Iu other papers on marigolds 

 and sundoweis we have re- 

 marked that all Howers are 

 sunliowers more or less, beeause 

 tliey look towards the sun; and 

 hence it is that many, sueh as 

 the miner convolvulus and the 

 tigridia (to name onh' two out 

 of thousands), can onl}- Ije seen 

 to advantage when they are 

 on the north side of the spec- 

 tator—a matter of some im[)(U'tance in the arrangement 

 of gardens. Rut, not to go into that larger matter, wc 

 have before us no .v a. heliotrope the name of which no one 

 can account for. It is the turnsole of the garden — tlie 

 Hower that turns to King Sol; but it has no s])ecial claim 

 til l)e so distinguished. There is, indeed, another I'eruviaii 

 plant that has a claim, and it is the helianthus, the yellow 



