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CORNUS THELIOANIS. 
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billing all possible beauties from Nature’s bands,” to tlie genus Homo^ and to de¬ 
pict wbat man would be without the aids and arts of civilisation, which would 
reduce their argument, even to their own eyes, I should think, to an absurdity. 
Hitherto (May 16) the weather has been ungenial, even beyond our usually 
ungenial springs, and has been trying to such varieties as from old age exhibit a 
weakened constitution, or plants which failed to get well on their legs in the 
autumn ; but as a whole, stocks are very promising, and with patient attention, 
the cultivator may confidently anticipate the great reward, though probably 
somewhat retarded, of a fine bloom. — E. S. Dodwell. 
CORNUS THELICANIS. 
'his species is described by M. Lebas, in Revue Horticole^ as the prettiest 
and most distinct of the genus, and a decorative plant of the first order, 
not only on account of the abundance and beauty of its fiowers, but also 
the amplitude and richness of its foliage. It constitutes a shrub or small 
tree of vigorous habit, 20 ft. to 25 ft. in height, with long, spreading branches, 
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