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COTYLEDON ORBICULATA L. 
Dr. William Trelease contributes a description of this saceutentes 
decorative plant to the fifth annual report of the Missouri Botani- 
cal Garden, accompanied by-a plate (No. 29). It is an African 
species, rarely mentioned in the catalogues of nurserymen, though 
said to have been introduced into Europe in 1690. 
It makes a fine shrub when well grown, and produces clusters 
of large pendant flowers of a delicate flesh color, shaded at times _ 
with darker red or light green, which add greatly to its beauty 
Dr. Trelease’s Cescription and figures were drawn from specimens 
from the nursery of Messrs. Lyon & Cobbe, Los Angeles. Calif., 
whose collection of succulents and cacti is one of the most com- 
‘plete in America. 
MEXICAN FLOWER MARKETS. 
- ihe City of Mexico. possesses many interesting markets, and 
the market places are perhaps the most typical of the Aztec re- 
gime. ‘The raising and selling of cut flowers is almost exclusively 
in the hands of Indian women, if not entirely —there being only 
one foreign florist, whose business in cut flowers was apparently: 
bring in every morning to the market, an iron pavillion near the 
cathedral built on the site of the Aztec temple. 
ae the first of May roses and pansies and camelias were in ee 
