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It would be a great gain to gardens if these three plants would 

 prove hardy. Such experience, however, as has been gained 

 respecting them is unfavourable to the supposition. Never- 

 theless, Mr. Lobb is of a different opinion, as will be seen by the 

 following extract from his letters : — 



'.' Respecting the hardiness of these things, if you look at their 

 geographical position, it may be assumed that all from the 

 elevated parts of the mainland are hardy, and I think that those 

 from the low grounds will only require sheltered situations. 

 The climate of Chiloe is much like tiiat of Cornwall ; it rains 

 almost incessantly in tlie winter months, but it is never so cold 

 in winter as it is in England. Frost often occurs, but of short 

 duration. Summer is also wet and cold : the tiierinometer seldom 

 rising beyond 65° ; but although tiie frost is not so severe, the 

 south winds are very cold and cutting, and I am inclined to 

 think that if anything be required, it will be sheltered situations 

 for those that iniiabit the low grounds near the sea." 



10. PERNETTYA CILIARIS, Don. (Fig. C.) 



In the nursery of Messrs. Veitch there grows in the open air 

 a dark-green low bush, with hard evergreen, ovate, serrated, 

 wrinkled leaves, covered slightly with stiff brown hairs on the 

 underside. The branches are clothed with similar hairs. In 

 appearance it is not unlike Vaccinium Arctostaphylos. The 

 flowers grow in numerous erect dense racemes, and are succeeded 

 by piles of deep rich, reddish brown, depressed umbilicate 

 berries, with a smooth calyx, the base of whose sepals is gibbous, 

 fleshy, and hairless. The stalks are, however, hispid, and about 

 twice as long as a smooth, pale, cucullate bract, which wraps 

 round their base. The bush is said to have been obtained from 

 Brazil, but it appears to agree altogether with the Pernettya 

 ciliaris of Don, said to be from Mexico, of which I have seen 

 no specimen in the many collections from that country. Mixed 

 with the bright rosy berries of P. mucronata and angustifolia, 

 tliis produces a very gay effect in the American border. 



11. ARAUCARIA COOKII, R. Broion. (Fig. D.) 



In the year 1850 Mr. Charles Moore, the Superintendent of 

 the Botanic Garden, Sydney, was enabled to pay a short visit to 

 New Caledonia and the neighbouring islands of the South Pacific, 

 in H.M.S. ' Havannah ;' and, notwithstanding many difficulties, 

 succeeded, through the very great kindness of Captain Erskine, in 

 collecting and bringing safe to Sydney a considerable number of 

 very valuable plants, seeds, and specimens. Some of them have 



