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the grandest of the tall-growing, yellow-flowered kinds first named. The fine 

 bright yellow and very handsome CE. Druminondii is, in favourable soil, to be 

 regarded rather as a biennial than a perennial, though in suitable positions it is 

 strictly perennial. 



Coming now to the more permanent perennial species, "we meet with the 

 well known and remarkably showy dwarf CE. macrocarpa or (E. vitssouriensis, 

 as well as dJ. f7-uticosa, in three varieties, and CE. riparia, all with yellow 

 flowers ; whilst amongst white-flowered sorts we have CE. taraxacifolia, CE. 

 speciosa,, CE. anisoloba., the latter growing 2 ft. to 3 ft. high, and CE. marginata, 

 a species which grows about 9 in. high, and whosa fragrant flowers are amongst 

 the very largest of the family. These, with many others, are well worthy of 

 culture and study. — William Eaelet, Valentines. 



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l| i>|\ E have long been familiar with the CordyUne australis as a free-growing 

 greenhouse plant, but it appears to be much hardier than has been 

 hitherto thought. It seems, indeed, to be quite hardy in the climate of 

 Surrey, a considerable number of plants raised from New Zealand seeds, 



directly imported, having stood out completely unharmed for the last four years, in a bleak 

 and cold situation in Mr. G. Jackman's nursery at Woking, where they are grovv'ing as freely 

 as Yuccas, and as healthily as any indoor plants. This is rather a sovero tost, since not only 

 have the plants had no protection, but the site where they are planted is that of a drained 

 pond, and being very much exposed, is not at all favourable for tender plants. They have 

 now formed leaves from two to three feet long. 



©NE of the prettiest of recently introduced stove plants is the Pliyllanthus 



nivosus, so named from its leaves becoming snow-white in colour over a consider- 

 able portion of the plants. In Australia it is called Phjllantlms variegata. This 

 plant was first discovered by Mr. 0. Moore, in the Island of Tanna, one of the New Hebrides 

 group, in 1850. Ho could obtain no account of its history or original habitat, but found it 

 was cultivated and prized by the natives. It was first observed by him at the annual 

 ceremony of rejoicing among the natives at the ripening of the Yams, when it was worn as 

 a head-dress by the Tanneso vfomen. 



— ■ — ®HE beautiful Liliiun Wilsoni\ which we figured in our volume for 

 1868, and which was at first thought to belong to L. Thunbergianum, reproduces 

 itself from seed, and thus far itself furnishes evidence of its distinctness. 

 Seedlings from the original bulb have this season flowered with Mr, Wilson, and 

 prove to be exactly like the parent in colour and marking. 



She Vegetable Crops in the gardens at Keswick Old Hall, Norwich, 



have been nearly consumed by the Purple Clover Weevil, Apion apricans, which 

 has travelled from a stack of clover hay just outside the garden wall, and 

 threatens to eat iip everything, if some means are not found to check its progress. Tho 

 vegetables that have suffered most are celoiy, parsley, broad beans, parsni]i3. scarlet-runners, 

 French beans, peas, lettuce. The insects do not, however, appear to care for the cabbage tribe. 



^B may recommend the Premier Runner Bean as a thoroughly original 



and distinct kind ; it was raised by Mr. E. Dean, and a few years since received 

 a First-class Certificate at Chiswick as a superior garden variety. The pods are 

 not largo and coarse, but exactly rosemblo thoao of a good dwarf Boaii ; and it is most tender 



