MARVEL OF PERU. 
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MARVEL OF PERU. 
TIMIDITY. 
This beautiful plant was first brought to Spain 
from Peru, and received its name from the 
wonderful diversity of colours in the flowers on 
the same root, 
changing from the splendid rose 
To the pale violet’s dejected hue. 
Akenside. 
The French call it Belle de Nv.it , because its 
flowers, apparently too timid to expand, even to a 
European meridian sun, open and give out their 
fragrance at night only. 
The Marvel of Peru retains its beauty for a 
great length of time, being frequently covered 
with blossoms from the beginning of July to 
the end of October, and the flowers are so 
numerous that the plants have a most cheerful 
appearance, particularly towards evening, as 
they rarely expand in warm weather before the 
hour of four in the afternoon, on which account 
