VARIETY. 
and form with their elegantly pensile pani¬ 
cles, bearded spikes, and silken plumes, ex¬ 
ceedingly graceful ornaments.” 
USELESSNESS. 
MEADOW SWEET. 
This plant, called by the French “Reine 
de prds,” is deemed an useless herb, because 
herbalists have not discovered any medical 
properties in it; and, also, because animals 
reject it as food. It is, however, a highly 
ornamental flower, and, surely that ought to 
be accounted something. 
VARIETY. 
CHINA ASTER. 
Europe is indebted to the missionary, 
Father d’lncarville, for this beautiful various- 
coloured flower; he having first sent it to the 
“ Jardin du Roi,” at Paris, about 1730. At 
first it produced only simple flowers of one 
