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their freshness through the year, and form 
with their elegantly pensile panicles, bearded 
spikes, and silken plumes, exceedingly graceful 
ornaments.’’ 
USELESSNESS. 
MEADOW SWEET. 
Tus plant, called by the French “ Reine 
des prés,” is deemed an useless herb, because 
herbalists have not discovered any medical pro- 
perties 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. 
Evrorx is indebted to the missionary, Father 
d’Incarville, 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 uniform 

