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 Jielle de Nuit, 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 
