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and an abundant bloomer. Both these do well for cutting. We have never 

 succeeded with hybrids, but that is no proof that they will not do well else- 

 where. Neither the Austrian brier nor the Scotch rose is of any use, in my 

 opinion, for they remain so short a time in bloom. 



To yield variety, the following plan may be adopted : — Place stakes 10 ft. 

 high and 10 ft. apart along the back of a kitchen-garden border, which may be 

 of any convenient width. From the 10-ft. stakes drop down with rustic trellis 

 or pea stakes to 5 ft. in the centre, making a festoon. Plant to each stake a 

 Hollyhock, and introduce between different colours of Sweet Peas and the 

 Canary-flower mixed, or Convolvulus major, or any one of the endless host of 

 beautiful facing-up plants. Against the 10-ft. stakes in certain borders here we 

 have introduced standard pears and apples, to be kept like orange trees. Gourds 

 do extremely well for situations of this kind, and in the case of the heavy- 

 fruited ones, a little bench fixed in front serves to show off the fruit. F. 



THE GENUS DARWINIA alias GENETYLLIS. 



Mil (pEW subjects of greater interest are met with at our great exhibitions of 

 yjjp plants than the species of Darwinia, better known to horticulturists 



f under the respective names of Genetyllis and Hedaroma. They are ever- 

 greens requiring only the shelter of a greenhouse, and their compact 

 bushy habit, and the singular attractiveness of their inflorescence, render them 

 well adapted for being grown into specimen plants. During the present season, 

 D. macrostegia has been shown by most cultivators in a state of unwonted beauty, 

 its bright and well-marked colouring being doubtless the result of the thorough 

 ripening of the young growth by the intense heat and light of the summer of 

 1868. 



The inflorescence of these plants is peculiar, and consists not, as at first sight 

 appears, of a drooping bell-shaped corolla, but of a coloured involucre, enclosing a 

 head of small and not very conspicuous flowers. The following are the modern 

 names of the species at present introduced, with their garden synonyms. 

 They all belong to that division of the section Hedaroma, which is characterized 

 by a large coloured involucre, and they are all West Australian : — 



Darwinia macrostegia. This is the Genetyllis tulipifera and the Hedaroma 

 tulipiferum of gardens, and the true Genetyllis macrostegia of Turczaninow. It 

 is the most beautiful of the three garden species, and is known by its entire 

 leaves of an elliptic-oblong outline, and also its entire bracts of an obovate form. 

 These are of a creamy-white colour, freely blotched with crimson, which is very 

 intense in well-grown plants. The involucres are larger than in the two follow- 

 ing species. There is a coloured figure in the Botanical Magazine, t. 4858. 



Darwinia Hookeriana. This is the garden Genetyllis macrostegia and G. 

 Hookeriana. It is somewhat more slender and less twiggy than the former, but 



