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ingly beautiful, and the geranium is almost a weed ; but still very 

 many of the sweetest and most beautiful English flowers will not 

 grow in the climate of New Holland. The native flowers are, with 

 very few exceptions, perfectly inodorous, and they gladden the ey© 

 with their grateful presence but for a short period. The dreary 

 wastes of New Holland are relieved by the varied tints of the native 

 flowers in the spring time only. But few persons, I apprehend, 

 would estimate the beautiful, but scentless, native flowers of New 

 Holland, beyond the more quiet-tinted, but sweet-smelling flowers 

 of Great Britain. Even were they on a par in point of beauty and 

 fragrance, the English flowers continue blooming a great part of the 

 year, whilst the dull monotony of the arid shrubs of Australia is 

 relieved only for a short time by beautifully-formed and exquisitely- 

 tinted, but inodorous flowers. With all the charm of form, the 

 Australian flowers must yield to the delicious fragrance and simple 

 colouring of the flowers of the charming hedgerows of *• merry 

 England." — Bartletfs New Holland. 



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