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Elichry^sum sesamoides, B. M. 425. 

 E. fasciculdtum, A. R. 242. 

 E. frdgrmis, A. R. 100. 



Yellow paleaceous flowers of long duration, com- 

 monly called everlasting flowers, which grow on 

 whitish tomentose-leaved low plants of easy culture 

 in peat soil, and increased by cuttings. 

 We will not say that the above enumeration con- 

 tains all the most select woody plants which are inha- 

 bitants of the green-house ; but we will affirm that 

 there is not a single species named therein that is not 

 highly beautiful, and well deserving the appellation 

 of select. These, with the Camellias, Geraniums, 

 Ericas, and Citron tribe before enumerated, will, if 

 assembled together without the intermixture of merely 

 curious botanists' plants, and to the exclusion of all 

 bad or sickly specimens, produce an effect beyond 

 any thing the imagination can well picture out — at 

 all events, an effect such as we meet with in hardly 

 any green-house at present, on account of the random 

 mode of bringing plants together. It is thought 

 quite enough if plants which require the climate of 

 the green-house are obtained, no matter what may be 

 their appearance, the colour of their flowers, time of 

 flowering, or whether they are deciduous or ever- 

 green. Every thing is obtained, it is thought, if a 

 great assortment of species are collected, though not 

 one of them should have half the beauty of a common 

 myrtle. We venture to affimi, and we request it may 

 be taken into consideration by all admirers of plants 



