ECHEVE'RIA SECUN'DA. 
SECUND ECHEVERIA, 
Class. 
DECANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
CRASSUI.ACEvE. 
Order. 
PENTAG YNIA. 
Native of 
Mexico. 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
8 inches. 
J une. 
Perennial. 
in 1837. 
No. 1167. 
Echeveria, named after M. Echever, a botanical 
painter, who designed for the Mexican Flora. 
All our own Eclieverias are natives of Mexico, 
and one of them, it is related in “The Botanist,” 
serves, among the aboriginal inhabitants of that 
country, like the Forget-me-not amongst the Euro- 
peans, as an emblem ol remembrance. The wish 
to be remembered, by those we love, is as strong in 
the breast of an Indian savage, as in the most re- 
fined member of civilized society ; and at parting, 
the one presents as fondly as the other, some token 
by which he desires to be recalled to the recollec- 
tion of his friends. No gift can be more pure or 
appiopriate than a flower, — the value arising not 
from any intrinsic worth in the present, but from 
the intention of the giver. It thus becomes invested 
with new charms, for it is then 
Affection’s tribute, friendship’s offering, 
Whose silent eloquence, more rich than words, 
Tells of the giver’s faith and truth in absence. 
And says “Forget-me-not.” 
Echeveria secunda must be treated as a half- 
hardy plant in winter ; in summer it may be kept 
in its pot, or turned out on rock- work 
