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As this plant cannot exist during the Hot and Kain seasons of this country, it must be treated simply as an annual in the Cold season. TAMABICACE^E. Tamarix. 1. T. Gallica, var. Indica TAMARISK Jdu Phards. A na- tive of Europe, as well as of this country, in the northern parts of which it covers large districts as a common jungul shrub ; and is much in use with the natives for making baskets : very graceful and feather-like in its growth; particularly pleasing when in blossom, and covered with ...its numberless little spikes of small pink flowers. 2. T. Dioica. A native also of this country: a very graceful and ornamental shrub, of light feather-branches, somewhat 406 GARDEN PLANTS. PART II. resembling the Casuarina; exceedingly pleasing when in full blossom, as it nearly always is, with its little stems terminating in a spike of small lilac flowers. CRASSULACE^]. Crassula. C. Nitida, and C. Miniata. Small herbaceous pot-plants of a succulent nature, very showy and beautiful when in flower, with their trusses of crimson blossom, much like that of a Phlox.
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