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to the very end of autumn. It is one of those plants occasionally 

 to be found in botanic gardens, but which the general public cannot 

 readily get. Ever since I first became acquainted with the dark green 

 and delicately graceful Meum athamanticum, I have had the fullest 

 confidence that from this Parsley order we shall yet get some of the 

 most charming ornaments for our flower gardens. Howeverj in 

 looking through the species with a view of selecting some for this 

 purpose, we find that, however beautiful are the leaves of some 

 umbellates, their value is but slight in consequence of their perishing 

 early in the year. I made a point of looking at this family every 

 time I went to the Jardin, and found that the following species 

 with elegant leaves preserved their verdure sufficiently long to 

 make them valuable as flower garden or pleasure ground orna- 

 ments ; indeed, some of them were as green as an emerald at the 

 end of the season : Seseli elatum, globiferum, and gracile, Atha- 

 manta Matthioli, Silaus tenuifolius, Meum adonidifolium, Peuce- 

 danum longifolium, Petteri, and involucratum, and Anthriscus fuma- 

 rioides. These were all in prime verdure the last week in August, 

 and would no doubt preserve their freshness to the last moment in 

 these islands. To these I woul^ also add, as "fern-leaved plants," 

 Pyre(hrum tanacetiodes and achillsefolium, and Tanacaetum elegans, 

 a distinct silvery-leaved species. 



