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NOTICE OF A FEW PLANTS IN CRASSULACE^. 
same in principle as those to which we have been directing attention. The three lead 
ing kinds, conspicuous for distinctness of character, scarlet, fancy, and erect-growing 
variegated varieties, as being suitable in point of habit for associating together, were 
planted promiscuously in the centre of the basket, the trailing, variegated, and ivy 
leaved species being put in so that they might trail over and depend from its edge, 
Any description of stand or basket might be had to suit the taste ; one we have 
much admired was made of the best wicker, painted green ; circular in form, much 
the widest at top, about two feet deep, having a portable lining of tin on the inside, 
with a movable perforated bottom of the same material, the basket having no bot- 
tom, and resting on an ornamental frame fifteen inches high. This description of 
basket endures, with an occasional painting, a great number of years. Its appear- 
ance when the plants were in full bloom, was unique, not unlike a magnificent care- 
fully-formed bouquet. Much of its beauty resulted from the care that directed its 
being filled with soil, &c. The drainage in the first place was made necessarily very 
effectual, and the soil chosen of a poor description, arranged so as to be highest in 
the middle ; the plants were put in very thickly, so as to have as great a variety as 
possible, and were selected rather small, with well-ripened wood, and for their appa- 
rent disposition to flower profusely. Under the circumstances in which they were 
growing, they necessarily required a good deal of attention in being kept properly moist. 
Baskets formed of slate or wood, would be as appropriate, though they might 
appear less characteristic than wicker. The situations in which such baskets are 
placed, requires some selection ; they should not be situated where the plants would 
be exposed to violent winds, nor where they would appear to be crowded or encroached 
upon by surrounding objects. 
NOTICE OF A FEW SPECIES OF ONE OR TWO GENERA 
IN THE NATURAL ORDER CRASSULACE.E. 
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We have a double object in view in the present paper; first, we are anxious to 
show the plants about to be treated of deserve such notice on their own account ; 
and next, purpose offering a few remarks on the way to grow the generality of such 
plants, so as to render them interesting. Those we have directly to deal with are 
commonly known as Crassulas, though they bear the name of Kalosanthes in gardens. 
But neither is the name they have received from De Candolle, in his arrangement 
of the order, and adopted by other eminent botanists, and which they must hence- 
forth be known by. To about a dozen species and some varieties, taken from the 
large genus Crassula, the above authority gives the name of Rochea ; therefore 
Crassula obliqua or falcata is Rochea falcata, (it has in instances some time been 
known as such), C. coccinea , or Kalosanthes coccinea , R. coccinea , C. or K. versicolor , 
R. versicolor , K. media , R. media , and so on : these four species are very common, 
