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the best and the worst—rather than ordinary or average things which attract human interest. The present very short communicaioncommunication [sic] may be called a vest-pocket account of the vest-pocket edition of the century plant. The use of this name, however, is not quite accurate, for the century plant properly is that large Agave, standing as the type of its genus, which was introduced into Europe not so very long after the discovery of the new world by Columbus, which has now become thoroughly naturalized about the Mediterranean, and which in northern