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IRISH GARDENING. 



of Nortli India, liiK' piiiualc ioliagL-, \ cry 

 lloriferous, with clusters of large rosy-}>iiik 

 flowers. Sollya. lieterophylla has been grown 

 here without ditiiculty for more than twenty 

 years, but the last two cold seasons destroyed 

 it. Its variety, Drumniondii, witli the same 

 bright-blue flowers, only smaller, and with a 

 finer foliage, appears to be more tender, and 

 has never yet been successful here. Nor has 

 Ehabdothamnus Solandri been hitherto estab- 

 lished out of doors, though it has survived 

 unhurt an ordinary mild winter. It is a very 

 charminfj little shrub, from New Zealand, \Aitn 



early this year; it is a \rry haiidsonif foliage 

 plant, hut it has not yet flowcri'd. Among the 

 Conifers, I'hyllocladus trichomauoides, Dacry- 

 (Hum Franklinii, D. cupressinum, U. Colen- 

 soi, Podocarpus nivalis, P. Nageia, and others, 

 Actinostrobus pyramidalis, Juniperus Cedrus, 

 and Callitris oblonga were uninjured; but 

 Podocarpus elongata, from South Africa, suf- 

 fered, w'hile Callitris verrucosa failed last 

 winter, though it survived the cold season the 

 year before with little or no damage. Tet- 

 raclinis articulata, partly cut down then, has 

 been absolutelv untouched ever since Kete.- 



The (Ikxus Vixla (pago 11;") 



pale-green leaves and orange bell-shaped 

 flow^ers, netted with dark lines. 



Of plants belonging to the interesting Pro- 

 teaceous Order, Isopogon latifolia and Grevillea 

 alpina were killed in 1916-17. Banksia integ- 

 nfolia was injured, recovered, and then failed 

 last winter. Hakea ulicina was unto\iched ; 

 H. pugioniformis, H. glabella, and Stenocarpus 

 saligniis were only slightly hurt ; Hakea florida 

 more damaged, but recovering; Lomatia fer- 

 ruginea, L. longifolia, and L. tinctoria, as well 

 as Dryandra formosa, escaped, and are all 

 growing very well ; the last-named species had 

 only been ))ut out permanently in the spring 

 of 1916, and the long cold of the w'inter follow- 

 ing did not appear to affect it in any way ; 

 some of the leaves, however, were singed by 

 the frof',t and by the east winds that prevailed 



lania Tortimei, a native of China; Cupressus 

 kashmiriana, the beautiful blue-tinted Cypress 

 of Asiatic origin ; Libocedrus macrolepis, from 

 Yannan; Pinus canariensis, P. oocarpa, P. 

 patula, P. teocote, the best tree, from 

 Mexico, appear 'hardy; but P. longifolia, 

 a native of North India, failed. Washing- 

 tonia filifera, a Palm from California, sur- 

 vived until last winter. Musa Basjoo, from 

 Japan, grov/s indifferently, but some of the 

 Bromeliads, Pitcairnea coerulea, Puya chilen- 

 sis, P. spathacea, Khodostachys pitcairneae- 

 folia, and Bilbergia nutans, are doing remark- 

 ably well. Beschorneria yuccoides, a fine plant 

 of the Amaryllis Order, and a native of ^Mexico, 

 seems hardy if protected from the damp. It 

 groW'S very well at Howth Castle, where it often 

 displays its wonderful flowers, 



