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THE LADIES' FLORAL CABINET. 
amiliar, but now almost forgotten. We do not mourn 
alone, the flowers themselves mourn as will be seen by 
the following plea to a foreign contemporary: 
“ Will you admit a few words of remonstrance from a 
very cruelly-treated, ungratefully-used, and persecuted 
race ? 
“I am a poor old-fashioned plant, though as ‘every 
dog has its day,’ I’ve had mine ; for I remember years 
ago how I used to be watched and watered, divided and 
subdivided; but now I suppose it is all up with me, 
unless you will allow some powerful voice to be raised 
iu my behalf, for I have lived to see all my old friends 
and neighbors, who used to rejoice the heart in many a 
day gone by, ungratefully and even cruelly uprooted 
from the soil, to make room for those horrid ‘par¬ 
venus’ and gay upstarts, and I fear my own time has 
also come. 
“This is the conversation I heard to-day:— 
“ Master .—‘ John, I must have all these old-fashioned 
flowers removed ; they don’t suit the present system of 
gardening.’ 
“John .—‘ Where shall I plant them, sir?’ 
“ Master .—‘Oh! plant them—let me see. Oh, John, 
after all you can throw them on the rubbish heap. I 
want nothing here but bedding plants, and I have no 
room for anything else.’ 
“ John .—‘ Lor, sir, it seem3 a pity; we shan’t have a 
single flower soon, that poor old master used to love so! 
I don’t like these new-fangled ways.’ 
“ And so you see, kind Editors, my doom is fixed, for 
these are the very words I heard this morning ; and I 
thought directly, I’ll write to those kind gentlemen 
and tell them, and then, perhaps, before we are all 
exterminated, they will let some one say a word in 
behalf of a once-loved but now neglected— Old-Fashioned 
Flower.” 
DIELYTRA CUCULLARIA, 
This little neglected plant belongs to the same family 
as the Adlumia, which our correspondent, Mr. Parnell, 
defends, in this number of the Cabinet, and, with the 
exception of the climbing habit of the Adlumia, it 
closely resembles. This plant is commonly met in 
moist woods throughout the Northern and Middle 
States, and is popularly known by the not very attrac¬ 
tive name of “Dutchman’s Breeches.” It is a very 
* interesting and decidedly pretty plant, a fitting com¬ 
panion to the more showy species, D. eximia, the rich 
green foliage and lively pink flowers of which make it 
a favorite border plant. This plant to succeed well 
should have a moist, partially shaded situation, in fact 
a dense shade is by no means an injury to it. It is 
admirably adapted to the rockery where its finely 
divided leaves of a glaucus hue, give a most pleasing 
.effect. None of this genus will succeed well in a dry 
situation. D. Spectabilis, the well known Bleeding 
Heart, in a dry season dries up and has a very shabby ap¬ 
pearance soon after flowering. The subject of our illus¬ 
tration has creamy white flowers, yellow at their base, 
but its beauty is more in the foliage than in the flower. 
