and retaining it there while necessary ; at least all 
the indusia we have examined, were uniformly filled 
with granules of pollen.” As well as possessing 
these peculiarities, so worthy the attention of the 
botanist, this plant has been an object of admiration 
for several years, at many of the first floricultural 
exhibitions in the vicinity of the metropolis. There 
is also another capacity, in which it must be con- 
sidered as especially useful, that is, as an appropriate 
ornament in geometrical gardens, laid out on the 
models of the French and the Dutch. Here it may 
be planted in the miniature compartments, or in 
the vases which usually decorate these prettily-em- 
bellished cabinets of nature and art. Many such 
gardens are to be met with in the suburbs of Lon- 
don and large towns, as well as connected with the 
mansions of the nobility ; and although they may, 
sometimes, be the recipients of conceits, denomi- 
nated cockneyisms, they often contain respectable 
sculptures, or other works of art, and also good 
plants, with careful keeping, which are always en- 
joyable; excepting by those cynics who labour to 
expand a single inconsistency, till they fancy it over- 
shadowing all the beauty with which it is associated. 
What a pity it is that the eyes of some such per- 
sons always admit the rays of deformity, excluding 
those of beauty. 
It should not pass unrecorded, that Great Britain 
owes its possession of this Leschenaultia to Francis 
Henchman, Esq., who sent out, at his own expense, 
a collector to King George’s Sound, who discovered 
this and many other plants that are now cultivated 
in our gardens. 
