Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1893 — About Plants. [ARTICLE]

About Plants.

The sweet olive was brought from China in 1771. The fly honeysuckle came from South Africa in 1752. The African sage came from South Africa In 1731. The dwarf magnolia came to Europe from China in 1786. The gold plant was brought to Europe from Japan in 1783. The arctopus came from the Cape of Good Hope in 1774. The tea plant is Chinese; first seen by Europeans in 1768. The Cape olive came from the Cape of Good Hope in 1730. St. Petebswobt is North America; first described in 1730. Cocoa grows wild in South America; taken to Europe in 1729. The golden bell flower came from the Madeira Islands in 1777. Heath is a South African plant, which came from Europe in 1774. The toothache tree is a South Carolinian; first noticed in 1739. The mountain tea is of North American origin; noticed in 1758. The snowdrop is indigenous to the Carolinas; described in 1756. The woolly leaved myrtle is from China; first described in 1776. The loblolly bay Is a native of North America; first noticed in 1739. The virgin’s bower is a Japanese plant; went to Europe in 1774. The pigeon berry wa9 first noticed growing wild in Canada in 1736. The variegated convolvulus is Chinese, and came to Europe in 1779. The giant-flowered everlasting was first noticed in South Africa, Y7Bl. The sorrel tree is native to temperate North America; first seen in 1752. In 1730 whole provinces in China were given up to the cultivation of the poppy.