FOR THE AMKlUUAd BAlLI AUVERTISER, 

 V!r. PoULSOIf, 



Though a stranger in this city, I was among 

 the many gratified visiters at Mn J. Long- 

 sireth^s garden last evening, who availed 

 themsefves of the very polite invitation gven 

 t<i the citizens of rhis pl xe, in your paper of 

 yesterday, to witness the expansiow of the 

 fiowers of the beautiful Night Blooming 

 Ceres, or <s Cacus Oetangularias." This 

 singular plavt is ji native of ropical Ame- 

 nca, and beiongs, as l understand, to a genus 

 of 30 or 40 species. . It is referred to the 

 eleventh class (fcosar.dria) and Hrst order 

 ( Vlonogynu) of Linnscus. The foliowing de- 

 scriptio;.i is glven in.Mr. NuttalPs Cienera of 

 Amencsn PJauU. 



Calix, superior, rnultified, segments imbri- 

 cate. 



Petals, nunRerous, arranged iri several se- 

 nes, those of the interior iarger. 



SMgroa many cleit. 



Berry umOilicate, many seeded, T& 



Arborescent, shrubby and herbaceous spe- 

 cies of various forms, remarkably carnose, 

 arficulated and prohferousf but usually des- 

 titute of proper leaves, mostly «producing 

 divergent clusters of spines intermixed with 

 tenaceousund pungent bristles or pubescence. 



To this classalso belongs many of our most 

 delicious fruits, such as the Peach, Apple, 

 Pear, Plumb, Chsrry, &c. but there is none 

 of the genera of tiiis valuable family, that bas 

 the singular propensity . of concea-tng the ex- 

 pansion of its beauties for the darkness ot 

 niglit, except this. Like the inate modestv oi 

 ma iy d^hcate minds, it shrinks from the ar- 

 dent blaze of the nou» day sun ; and no art 

 has been abie to atter this determmed habit. 

 How iniinitely vartous are the works or the 

 Deity ; yet how harmnnious, how beautifui 

 how subiime, can ah such beauties be.creat- 

 ed for ihe soie benefi of the ungf^tefui iorci 

 uf this earth, whose caieer ot avar ce, aw.b : - 

 tion and injustice, has martced his hiarcb on 

 the page ot hsstory, from the earhtst period 

 to tbe present tiroe, or are there other be • 

 «ng9 whu acknowiedge *dh a proportionate 

 «tegree of grathude, the happiness tt&ty de- 

 rive from the contempiatioB of the.tanet: 

 scene» of nature, ahd the obligations tliev 

 are under to the great Suoreme lntelligence 

 which creates and su3ta»ns the whoie. 



lr tbere s a man amo.gyoo, wnose soui 

 feels no emotion on ber.oiding the beantdu 

 o. sub'irne iti rtatnre, trust hin; not, he wdi 

 -Uceive you, his heart cau huve no syinpalhy 

 w.th iiu?i4an uiserv, the euidions ol his soui 

 are nevcr in harmony whn the majesty o» 

 vrrt.ie. FLOKA COLUMBlA.sA. 



July 21*/, 1810. 



