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fresh specimen of. this very beautiful climber. Of course 

 the magnolias were here in perfection, aloes of all sorts, 

 and, in short, almost everything which florists could 

 desire — with the exception, however, of camellias, for 

 which we had heard that Portugal was renowned ; but 

 we learned that Lisbon is too hot for that handso-me 

 shrub, but that we should see it in cooler districts, as, 

 indeed, we afterwards did at Cintra, and still more memo- 

 rably at Oporto, of the largest size and in the greatest 

 luxuriance, as shall be related fuither on. 



