dce-Dlant, 
Mesembryanthemum crpstallinum, Narurar Orver: Mesembryacee — 
Lce-Plant Family. 
PRRO.OT a little curious and attractive, this plant has its foliage 
Ss Yentirely covered with protuberances about the size of grains 
of barley, that appear like the most transparent ice, whence 
Te is called crystallinum; the other part of its scientific name, 
3 from the Greek, denotes Midday Flower. The branches 
os are trailing, from ten to twelve inches in length, and pro- 
duce white flowers during the whole summer. It is from Greece. 
There have been some new varieties introduced from the Cape of 
i % Good Mage, that are adapted for conservatory culture, the flowers 
% combined. They require very little moisture in winter, once or 
aw twice a month being sufficient, but the quantity should be increased 
to a generous allowance when the blossoms begin to appear. The 
different varieties, of which there are several hundred, have quite a 
diversity of foliage. 
Hormatity, 
H, she is colder than the mountain’s snow; 
To such a subtle purity she’s wrought, 
She’s aes and fasted to a walking thought. 
» —Crown. 
O dews of love can warm the iceberg heart, The sculptur’d beauty of her marble face 
Or melt the Alpine snows upon her breast; Is chill and cold as e’er was marble stone; 
E’en flowers cease to spread their leaves apart, Those veinlets blue, that o’er her temples trace, 
If by her chilling foot they ’re prest. Are like a springlet from a glacier thrown. 
—C. HA. T. 
HOSE glances work on me like the weak shine ANST thou no kindly ray impart, 
The frosty sun throws on the Appenine, Thou ‘strangely beauteous one? 
When the hills’ active coldness doth go near Fairer than fairest work of art, 
To freeze the glimmering taper to his sphere. Yet cold as sculptured stone! 
—Beaumont. —Ordway, ( 
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