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these choicer articles purtiouhirly ilcsiniMc, as when thn)\vin<; up their new fronds. We gire 

 there is no room for all. It is especially among an illu.stration of Macrozamia pluinosa. This is 

 Palms, Cyoads, Broincliads, Tree-fern.«, and a very rare kind, and still new. What it will be 

 thin,;^9 like them dinicult of propa^iition or of wlien it has a stem several feet in height, aa 

 very alow growth, that we have to look for just many of the same order have in this collection, 



MACROZAMIA PLUMOSA. 



such articles, and thus they constitute the pre- can be imagined, and w'll give an idea of the 

 vailing features of this beautiful conservatory, prevailing character of the vegetation in Mr. 



Just now the various Cycads were particularly Gibson's house, 

 interesting though being about making their In fact, there is as mu ;h interest in the stems 

 new growth. Tliey are never so beautiful as of these plants as in the leaves and flowers of 



