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H^the smallest dimensions of our city hot-houses, the indigenous plants V 

 \d of Borneo and Sumatra and Brazil, Java and Ceylon. Our Parks 

 7 were then no doubt quite pleased to give support to such pines as 

 mops, Pinsapo, Pindrow, Abies Webbiana, and others of this class. 

 The Cedrus Deodwara or Dcodara, as we term it„ or in English, Deo- 

 * dar Cedar, luxuriated then at peace on the mountain ranges of the 

 lofty Himalayas, at thousands of feet of elevation ; the hot blasts which 

 abound over the territory at the foot of this gigantic Ossa, are cooled 

 before they reach its foliage; therefore a colder climate such as ours 

 does not quite annihilate it — but it does not luxuriate here. Some 

 far-seeing gentlemen amateurs will not plant it, for they say "some 

 twenty years may pass, and then comes a frost, a biting frost, and 

 nips its buds," as Wolsey says; but then some ten years, and the hand 

 that planted the Deodar Cedar in the vicinity of Philadelphia may be 

 gathered to his fathers; and in the classic grounds of the Woodlands 

 Mr. Carvill may prune off for the thirtieth time the dead limbs of Ce- 

 drus Deodara, while the short-seeing mortal may slumber beneath its 

 roots. The tall Salisburia waves its branches still in the Woodlands; 

 graves rise up around it, and no murmur of death for the Gingko — it 

 hears no funeral bell. The Cratcegus oxyacantha grows in the Wood- 

 lands Cemetery, and the tine scarlet variety also is healthy and cloth- 

 ed with bloom. The milk-white Thorn becomes red or scarlet and is 

 much admired, but it has not reached that size or form to render the 

 poets lines applicable — 



11 If Heaven one draught of heavenly pleasure spare, 



One cordial in this melancholy vale, 

 'Tis when a youthful, modest, loving pair, 

 In others' arms breathe out the tender tale, 

 Beneath the milk-white Thorn that scents the evening gale-. 7 ' 



RAFFLESXA ARNOLDII. 



Dr. Arnold's Rafllesia — growing on the stems of plants, such as Cis- 

 sus, and several species of pod plants (LegtjMinosje) in the East In- 

 dies and parts of South America, is found this remarkable and anoma- 

 lous plant, furnished with neither stem, nor stalk, nor leaf; it luxuri- 

 ates as an immense flowering parisite, its whole structure being con- 

 densed, if we ma}' so term it, into a gigantic inflorescence. Its ap- 

 pearance can only be guessed at by those who have not seen either 

 the plant itself or an authentic figure of it. We enjoyed the latter 

 privilege at the Royal Gardens, Kew. The enthusiastic mind of 

 Bauer and his pencil did all for its illustration that could be desired ; 

 and the venerable President of the Linnsean Society described it. For 

 a description, see Linnasan Society's transactions. One of the species 

 called in Java Patina, is employed medicinally in a very important 

 disease. The following is from a contributor, prepared for the Hor- 

 ticultural Journal: 



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