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than (). C'liathainifa aii<l O. st'inidciitata. wliicli 

 liave large Howers. produced !<ingly and not in 

 eorviiibs, light maiivo in coloin- with dark 

 centres. an(l unlike the leaf and intlorcscencc 

 of the more common sjjecies such as O. argo- 

 ])hylla. (). macrodonta, O. nitida, &c. (). 

 insignis. too. is a handsome s])ecies : it docs well 

 here, and Howcrcd last year, hut not this season. 

 A small plant of Pitt()s]K)runi hctcrophylluni 

 has also Howcrcd for the iirst time this year : 

 a ))ranchlet herewith. It was raised from seed 

 kindly sent from La JMortola. The bloom is 

 yellow in colour. ])alcr than that of P. eugenioides 

 and of P. paucifloi'um var. brevicalyx, and it 

 may be doubted ^^•hether it will be as showy as 

 they are. but as it seems to be very floriferous 

 Ave cannot detennine this till it becomes larger. 

 There is a sjiccimen of P. patulum here now 

 nearly 11 feet high. Avith very curious small 

 linear black-]nirple leaves, but which has not 

 yet flowered. Hypericum cernuum, coming from 

 the Himalayas, grows well in shelter and seems 

 hardy : branchlet herewith. It can hardly 

 compare for depth of colour with H. triflorum 

 (as it is usually called), which })looms later in the 

 season, and is pro})ably the best of the genus ; 

 but its pale yellow flower against the light green 

 foliage has a charm of its own very difficult to 

 match. Few summer-blooming shrubs surpass 

 Leptospermum scoparium and its varieties in 

 effect, in beauty, and in colour ; the type is 

 white, and the variety Nicholii is a deep and a 

 briUiant red, while in L. Boscawenii, a hybrid 

 that originated in Cornwall, the blossom is some- 

 what larger, and the white is suffused at the 

 base of each petal with rosy pink. A plant of 

 L. Nicholii at Rostrevor is some 10 feet high, 

 and it is usually a gorgeous sight at the end of 

 June and July , being literally bathed in crimson. 

 Owing to the inclemency of the season, it does 

 not show the same wealth of bloom as was in- 

 variably the case in former years, except on 

 those branchlets which have been protected by 

 neighbouring plants. Cestrum elegans, C New- 

 ellii. and C. fasciculatum do not seem, however, 

 to have been affected by the bad Aveather, and 

 they are all of them in good floAver. Allied to 

 Cestrum is Solanum aviculare, Avhich, though 

 not supposed to be hardy, has grown out of 

 doors here Avithout protection, and has survived 

 tAvo AA'inters Avithout hurt ; it is noAV a very 

 pretty object Avith its hne large mauve flowers. 

 Nearly all the Rhododendrons are out of bloom, 

 but R. Keyesii retains a number of its peculiar 

 red -yellow floAvers which look like a Cape Heath, 

 though the leaf is unmistakeably like a Rhodo- 

 dendron. R. micranthum also still displays its 

 branches of small white blossoms. Indigofera 

 amblyantha. one of the new plants introduced 



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leaf and lial.il not unlike the other 

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( )n account of the wi't spring ami sunnner, 

 se\eial shnd)s did not show nuieh liowcr this 

 ycai' for instance, the common Lilacs : but on 

 the other hand certain ])lants bloomed freely, 

 sonic very freely. Among these may be men- 

 tioned : — Acacia armata, A. ])ulchclla, A. verti- 

 eillata, Billardicra longillora. B. fruticosa, Cak-co- 

 laria violacca. ('lianthus puniccus, Cytisus pro- 

 liferus ((juite 16 feet high), Cnidia carinata, 

 Hakea ])ugioniformis, H. ulicina. Hibbertia 

 llcadii. Melicytus ramiflorus,* Rh<«lo(lcn(lron 

 Crirtithianum. R. eoneinnuni. Suthcrlandia 

 frutcscens (descended from plants raised from 

 seed collected by Sir Frederick Shaw near the 

 River Vaal during the Boer War), Tricu'pidaria 

 lanceolata, Trochodendron aralioidcs and West- 

 ringia rosmariniformis. Embothrium coccineum 

 of Avhich there are several s])ecimens here — one 

 some 25 feet high — did not flower as profusely 

 as usual ; the same may be said of Acacia deal- 

 bata and of A. melanoxylon. Anopterus glan- 

 dulosus, a beautiful evergreen from Tasmania, 

 Leucopogon Richei, and Sphacele campanulata 

 produced but little bloom ; while Dendromecon 

 rigidum is only noAv coming into bud. The 

 Chinese Rhododendrons Avere somewhat dis- 

 appointmg : R. siDinuliferum and some others did 

 not flower at aU. I enclose a branchlet of Hakea 

 pugioniformis shoAving its pccidiar fruit. 



Among the shrubs still to flower there are : — 

 BoAvkeria triphylla, Chihanthus oleaceus, Colqu- 

 hounia vestita, Cyrilla racemiflora. Erica 

 cerinthoides (a splendid Cape Heath, bright red), 

 Jacobinia pauciflora, Melaleuca hypericifolia, M. 

 nesojihila, Notospartiinn Carmichaehse, Rhab- 

 dothanuius Solandri, &c. 



It may be of interest to add the names of some 

 ])lants that are doing very avcII in the open, but 

 Avhich haA'c not yet floAvered, nor does it seem 

 likely that they Avill do so this year : — Acacia 

 baileyana, A longifolia, Astroloma pinifolia, 

 Banksia integrifolia. B. spinulosa, Brachyglottis 

 repanda, Brachylsena dentata, several Calliste- 

 mons, Cantua dependens, Carpodetus serratus, 

 Corynocarpus laevigata. Dais cotinifolia, Gor- 

 donia anomola, Guevina Avellana, Hakea florida, 

 Hoheria populnea, Isopogon latifolia, Lonuitia 

 tinctoria. Magnolia Dcla\'ayi, two Melaleucas, 

 whose .specific names have not yet been ascer- 

 tained, Metrosideros lucida, Myoporum Isetum, 

 M. acuminatum, PhyHca nitida, Proustia pyri 

 folia, Tricuspidaria dependens, Visnea Mocanera. 

 Weinmannia racemosa, Whipplea modesta, &c. 



