hills, and has given to every nation its animal and 
its vegetable as he saw good. 
Plants, we know, from peculiar differences of or- 
ganization which defy the discrimination of the 
acutest botanist, and are disclosed to us only by 
experience, are restricted to the habitation of cer- 
tain temperatures Those of the tropics cannot 
exist in the inferior temperature of a northern cli- 
mate, nor can vegetables of the polar regions live 
under the blaze of a tropical sun. There are, liow- 
ever, other atmospherical influences of which we 
know the effects alone. “ Each of the great divisions 
of tlie earth ” as Barton states in his Geography of 
Plants, appears to have given birth to a set of 
plants distinct from those of other parts. Thus, a 
large proportion of the trees and plants growing wild 
in the western hemisphere are unlike those of the 
eastern hemisphere in the same latitude. The 
vegetable productions of the Cape of Good Hope 
are unlike those of the south of Europe, though the 
climate in these two situations is little dissimilar. 
The plants of the East Indian Islands form another 
distinct class ; those of China and Japan another ; 
those of New Holland again another; and, the 
little island of St. Helena, it is said, contains a set 
of plants peculiar to itself.” Well may the Psalm- 
ist exclaim Lord how manifold are thy works ! 
in wisdom hast thou made them all : the eartli is 
full of thy riches.” 
Cypripedium humile is probably scarce, even in 
America, being rarely met with amongst imported 
plants. It should be kept in a pot of sandy peat, 
well drained, and have protection with alpine plants. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 5, 221. 
