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JULI'S GARDEN. — NATURALIZED CELERY. 
22—24. June, 
thoughtless schemes which the unreflecting Hottentot often takes 
into his head, and of which the execution is generally prevented by 
some other whim equally ill-advised or unpromising, I did not think 
it necessary, to check the pleasure he seemed to derive from the 
fancied advantages and riches which he calculated on gaining by that 
step. I even allowed myself to be amused by listening to his 
proposed measures: he had already fixed on a spot for his garden; 
it was in the valley near the clump of acacias beyond the water. 
2Srd. On the following morning I went with him to inspect it ; 
and it was certainly an excellent and pleasant situation, and very 
judiciously chosen. As I had brought with me the seeds of various 
sorts of useful plants, for the purpose of dissemination in the 
countries of the Interior, this appeared a proper opportunity for 
commencing it. I gave him therefore, some of peach, quince, almond, 
and several kinds of esculent vegetables, which he sowed in a suitable 
soil ; and as the moist ground about the spring appeared a natural 
place for the celery-plant [Apium graveolens) I scattered a considerable 
quantity of it there. On our return to this fountain six months 
afterwards *, a few of Juli's seeds were found to have vegetated, and 
the celery seemed already to have naturalized itself, as it was then in 
flower and seed ; but of so diminutive a size, that it might have 
been mistaken for another species, had I not recollected that it had 
been sown there by myself. 
* At that time I collected at Kosi Fountain, a variety of new plants, among which the 
following is remarkable as being the first of that Natural Order which has been found in 
Southern Africa. 
Triaspis hypericoides, B. Catal. Geogr. 2531. Frutex 3 — 4-pedalis pulcher erectus 
ramosus. Rami fusci glabri oppositi patentes. Folia ovato-linearia glabra pedunculata 
glauca integerrima opposita (raro subalterna). Pedicelli axillares solitarii 3 — 6-flori. 
Flores pedunculati inodori rosei. Calyx 5-phyllus, sepalis lanceolatis erectis. Petala 
5 unguiculata, patentia ovata concava, ad margines laciniato-fimbriata. Styli tres. Stig- 
mata obsoleta. Stamina 10 basi discreta. Pollinis particula globosa. Fructus immaturus 
conspersus pilis medio affixis. Samarae tres ala maxima peltata rotundata auctse. Genus 
ex ordine Malpighiacearum, et maxime affine Hircece ; cum qua conjungendum, nisi haec et 
Tetrapteris separatae fuissent a Triopteridibus. Nomen a Tge7j tres et ao-Tr/j dypeus ; oh 
samaras tres scutiformes. — Vide iconem magnitudine naturali, huic capitulo subjunctam. 
