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THE MONTHLY FLORA. 
It has been well remarked, that this race of plants wants but a 
greater capability of endurance to the cold, to make them the 
most valuable as well as confessedly the finest productions of the 
vegetable kingdom. Unfortunately none of them will endure the 
frost ; all have perished upon which the experiments for the 
purpose of naturalizing them were tried, and in despite of the 
most persevering and trying effort, they remain as they w'ere at 
first. Greenhouse plants. They are easily propagated by cuttings 
from any part of the plant, whether from the old woods or new ; 
placing these in a pot filled with moderately moist earth will ensure 
their sprouting. The only geranium possessed of much medicinal 
properties, is the G. Maculatum, or Crane’s bill geranium, which 
is indigenous to the United States, and the purple colored flowers 
of which are too well known to need description ; its root is a 
highly valuable astringent. Most of the whole species are in 
perpetual leaf; the remainder die to the ground and come up 
annually, to flower and produce seed. This plant emblemizes 
Art, from its faculty of imitation. In it the student of chemistry, 
as Phillips remarks, will see how imperfect is his art in comparison 
with natural chemistry, which distils from the earth and conveys 
by distinct channels, in its small stems, all that is necessary to 
produce foliage, flowers, and fruit, together with color, smell, and 
taste, the most opposite fluids and liquids being separated only by 
divisions so small as scarcely to be deemed a substance. And the 
research into the wonders of this, as well as every other species of 
vegetation, may be entered into without hurting the sensibility of 
the most tender feeling, as plants and roots may be dissected with- 
out those disagreeable sensations, which follow the dissection of 
animals. 
“ Each secret spring, each organ let me trace, 
That mock the proudest arts of human race; 
Completest toil from endless source that rose, 
Each worth a world ; for each the Godhead shows.” 
