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AMARANTH. 
length and in breadth, and extremely beautiful. 
The colour of the scarlet varieties is highly 
brilliant. 
“The Amaranth is recommended, among 
ftther flowers, as a food for bees.—The poet 
Moore speaks of it as being employed to adorn 
the hair, a purpose for which it is peculiarly 
well adapted. 
“ The Amaranths are chiefly natives of Ame¬ 
rica, and very few are supposed to grow natu¬ 
rally in Europe ; yet Sir VV. Jones speaks of 
them as if growing wild in Wales. 
