ledge, although the globe’s diameter divide their 
scene of action. Well has Pope said 
« Look round our world ; behold the chain of Love 
Combining all below and all above. 
See plastic Nature working to this end, 
The single atoms each to other tend. 
Attract, attracted to, the next in place 
Form’d and imped'd its neighbour to embrace. 
See matter next, with various life endu’d, 
Press to one centre still, the gen’ral good. 
See dying vegetables life sustain. 
See life dissolving vegetate again : 
All forms that perish other forms supply, 
(By turns we catch the vital breath and die) 
Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, 
They rise, they break, and to that sea return. 
Nothing is foreign ; parts relate to whole ; 
One all-extending, all-preserving soul 
Connects each being, greatest with the least; 
Made beasts in aid of man, and man of beast; 
All serv’d, all serving: nothing stands alone ; 
The chain holds on, and where it ends unknown.” 
Cuphea silenoides, like some others of its genus, 
already published, is well suited for filling entiie 
beds, where the extent of the garden admits of this 
arrangement. Its seeds should be sown in a hot- 
bed, in March; the young plants, when an inch 
high, potted singly in the smallest pots, or in threes 
in larger ones ; kept with protection till the end of 
April, and then transferred to their final place of 
growth. It should be remembered, that previously 
to transferring seedlings from a hotbed into the open 
ground, they should be hardened gradually. 
