(EdoSlfl Ct'istata. Natural Order: Amarantacece — Amaranth Family. 
^ FEW years ago the crimson Celosia was the only variety to 
be met with, and now we have the white, yellow, and rose. 
They bloom in a flattened, pyramidal spike, frequently a foot 
broad, and resemble a mass of plush gathered into a gro- 
Aj tesque shape, the crest of the flower being usually deeper in 
x tint and softer in texture. They are garden annuals, but 
equally adapted for pot culture, looking well as greenhouse or con¬ 
servatory ornaments when placed against a background of striking 
foliage. Their flowers are lasting, and are a fine addition to winter 
1 -ltlS 9 bouquets, in which case they should be plucked before frost, and before 
too much wasted by the ripening of the seeds. 
/AH! save me, ye powers, from these pinks of the nation, 
^ These tea-table heroes! these lords of creation. — Salmagundi. 
QOME positive, persisting fops we know, 
^ Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; 
But you with pleasure own your errors past, 
And make each day a critique on the last. — Pope. 
Y'OXCOMBS are of all ranks and kind, 
They’re not to sex or age confined; 
Of rich, or poor, or great, or small, 
’Tis vanity besets them all. —Gay. 
QHINE out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass, 
v - That I may see my shadow as I pass. —Shakespeare. 
TJV’RY morning does 
This fellow put himself upon the rack, 
With putting on’s apparel, and manfully 
Endures his tailor, when he screws and wrests 
His body into the fashion of his doublet. —Shirley. 
TJOPS take a world of pains 
1 To prove that bodies may exist sans brains; 
The former so fantastically dress’d, 
The latter’s absence may be safely guess’d. 
—Park Benjamin. 
ATURE made ev’ry fop to plague his brother, 
Just as one beautv mortifies another. —p 0 p e- 
