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THE FLOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ Februaey, 
in existence. The figures, which we are enabled to introduce through the 
courtesy of Mr. Laurentius, of Leipzig, and which have been prepared from 
drawings by Mr. Thieme, of that city, convey a better idea of their characters than 
any word-painting could do ; but we may add that A. horrida itself (fig. 1) is a 
dwarf, stemless species, with broad oval-lanceolate, somewhat concave, leaves, 
which grow rosette-hke, and are about 4 in. long, and from If in. to 2 in. broad 
at the widest part, of a lively and tender green, terminating each in a long, stout, 
