THE GREEN-HOUSE. 



Subsect. 6. Succulent Green-house Plants 



The succulent plants proper to be admitted into a 

 small green-house are in our opinion very few. Suc- 

 culents cannot in general be considered as beautiful ; 

 they are curious, and some of them oddities, and of 

 forms which surprise at first sight ; but who takes 

 that pleasure in contemplating the leafless Stapelia 

 or the grotesque Cactus, (however extraordinary the 

 flowers of some species may be,) which he does in 

 looking on a Rose or a Cmnellia '/ None whose 

 tastes are not vitiated or singular, or who do not look 

 solely with the eye of science. One or two curious 

 or ugly objects, however, may be admissible to show 

 that there are such things ; and of these we shall se- 

 lect a few of the hardiest, and of those which have 

 the finest flowers, arranging them according to their 

 time of flowering. 



January/. 



Mesemhryanthemiim luteo-viride. Yellowish-green 



flowers on a low spreading plant. 

 M. perviride. Dark green flowers on a herbaceous 



thick-leaved tuft rising only an inch or two from 



the pot. 



February and March, 

 Mesemhryanthemum semicylindricum. 



