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conservatory. Chamcedorea elegans, C. JSrnesfi augusti, and C. Yer- 

 schaffeltiana must not be forgotten, for they are all first-rate. 



Latania Bourhonica is the hardiest of the genus, and at the same 

 time one of the most beautiful. Nothing can exceed the beauty of 

 its spreading fan-shaped leaves. "Without question it might be in 

 every collection ; and the price of small plants is no more than that 

 of a Tom Thumb geranium ! The date palms furnish us with several 

 splendid species, which add a grace and beauty to our conservatories 

 not attainable with the ordinary greenhouse plants alone. 



Phcenix dactylifera, reclinata, sylvestris, and tenuis are four of the 

 best of this section. There are numbers of others equally desirable^ 

 but I fear that I have already taken up too much space, therefore I 

 will name but one more, and that shall be the charming 



Tlirinax loarviflora. — Though the sketch is correct enough, it 

 fails to convey a full ideji of its extreme beauty. 



I intend saying something about their value and usefulness for 

 indoor decoration and plant cases, but that must be left for another 

 paper. Perhaps enough has been said about the value of palms for 

 table decoration, but I cannot resist adding a word on their ad- 

 mirable fitness for filling ornamental pots, vases, epergnes, etc., 

 things which, if people possess, they like to use, but which, where 

 there are no proper plants for them, get sadly misused. The 

 figure which closes this paper is an illustration of the above 

 remark, the palm represented on a bracket being the right plant 

 in the right place. AVe have to thank Messrs. Barr and Sugden 

 for the opportunity of illustrating this mode of turning palms 

 to account for room decoration. 



