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it therefore is, and must remain, the vade mecum of the many. The natural 
classification is, on the contrary, the system of the learned few ; it is unfinished^ 
unformed, and to this day is composed of disjointed materials, grand in its object, 
comprehensive in its design, but so hampered with difficulties that it is but too 
likely to remain a sealed book, a hidden mystery." We now arrive at the point 
from which we started; and shall quote the characters which distinguish and 
illustrate the order Myrtacece, as we find them in the EncyclopcBdia of Plants^ and 
Hortus JBritannicuft, 
Dotted leaves, with marginal ribs, and an inferior ovarium and single style, 
are the great features of Myrtacece. They are all fine evergreen shrubs or trees, 
generally bearing white flowers, and in the first section (tribe) '^producing fleshy 
fruit," &c. &c. " The volatile oil contained in the little reservoirs of the bark, the 
leaves, and the floral envelopes, gives these plants a fragrance, which has caused 
them to be celebrated by the poets of old." " There is also a considerable propor- 
tion of the astringent principle in these plants ; in the bark of the pomegranate it 
is very obvious." " The leaves of the Chilian myrtles, Leptospermum scopariumt 
and some other species, have been used as substitutes for tea." (See farther, En. PL 
p. 1068, order Ixiii.) 
Punica has been subsequently removed, and now is referred to GranatecB. 
" This order consists of one genus, the well known pomegranate ; it diff'ers from 
Myrtacece, in the leaves being destitute of pellucid dots, as well as the seeds being 
enveloped in pulp." {Hort. JBvit., p. 513, order Ixx.) 
The reader has now before him, a fair, and one of the most pleasing specimens 
of the plan ; he thence can draw a sort of inference on the general arrangement of 
the new classification. We hope soon to resume the subject, to cite other 
examples ; and in doing so, to present to the lover of nature some more of those 
exquisite productions which charm the senses, while they instruct the under- 
standing. 
ORNAMENTAL BASKETS FOR PLANTING GREENHOUSE 
PLANTS IN. 
It is only under certain circumstances, that it is thought advisable to expose 
greenhouse plants during the summer season ; or, in other words, to turn them out 
of doors during the three months of summer, or perhaps till the middle or latter 
end of September. In cases where the greenhouses are wholly devoted to the 
cultivation of this kind of plants, and the house well and properly constructed, it is 
certainly to be allowed that they will do much better if kept in the whole season ; 
receiving, every fine day, a free circulation of air from all the moveable sashes and 
ventilators ; but in places where the number of species of greenhouse plants is small, 
and accomodation scanty — perhaps only one greenhouse, and this a small one — it is 
