a dazzling effect on the sight, not unlike the lustre of 
poUshed metal. The eye cannot rest upon it without 
evident imeasiness. If any artist or artizan, in the 
pride of his heart, assume to himself excess of merit 
for the tints he has produced, or rather, that he has 
discovered, let him look on the Verbena chamaedri- 
folia, and subdue the intemperate heat of his imagina- 
tion. Nothing smely can be better adapted to turn 
man’s thoughts off his own self-sufficiency than the 
works of nature. Wherever he rests his attention, 
whether on matter organized or unorganized, there 
he will discover convincing evidence of his own igno- 
rance ; and at the same time, the omnipotence of a 
first great cause will be impressed on his mind, and 
influence liis understanding. 
The demands of this plant, under cultivation, are 
few and simple. In a rich light soil, and warm situa- 
tion, it flourishes exceedingly. It scarcely attains a foot 
in height, but spreads freely on the surface of the soil; 
and if the branches be hooked down, or a small stone 
be placed on them at each joint, they strike root with 
great freedom, and often do so without any such at- 
tention, and thus an increase is effected with rapidity. 
Cuttings of the yoimg branches, planted under bell 
or hand glasses, on a hotbed, make root so readily 
that if taken from the ends of the shoots, the buds 
thereon will flower with the same beauty as though it 
had not been removed from the parent plant. It is 
indeed an incessant flowerer, and, though the ther- 
mometer has been at about twenty degrees below 
freezing, within the last three weeks, we now have 
it under the mere protection of the cold frame and a 
mat, bearing flower buds in perfect health. 
Sweet’s FI. Card. s. 2, 9. , 
