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removed; these I would have had him graft, but he refused, 

 Bayiug that they had only a tap-root ; such stocks removed may 

 be able to maintaiu thomselvets, but it ia a different thing to 

 maiutaiu their grafts." Another chapter ia on the flower 

 garden, and a third on the kitchen garden, but they are very 

 brief, and chiefly extracts from previous writers. 

 His notes on " Poultry " are, with the exception of one 



fiction.' The plant, however, was rediseoveretl in quantity by 

 Mr. Burke, a gardener of the Earl of Derby, who was sent out 

 at that nobleman's expense to accompany Mr. Zeyher on an 

 expedition for collecting plants and animals. Living plants 

 were cultivated at Knowsloy, Lancashire, Lord Derby's seat. 

 In 1874 HE. Sir H. Barkly, the Governor of the Cape, obtained 

 from Henlries, near the Orange River, two fine specimens of 



Fig. 117.— Edward lisle. 



statement, extracted from other books, and that one statement 

 is a ridiculous tale of crows and hens interbreeding. 

 The notes on pigeons are brief and unoonneoted. 



PORTRAITS OF PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS. 



HoODH GoRDONi. Nat. onl., Asclepiadaoea). Linn., Pent- 

 aadria Digynia. Flowers pale lemon. — " This very remarkable 

 plant was discovered near the Orange River by Colonel Gordon. 

 He made a drawing on the spot, which Masson published in 

 his ' Stapeliffi Novae ' (179C). For nearly half a century nothing 

 more was known of it than this figure, which seemed so extra- 

 ordinary ' that our Stapelia growers used to speak of it as a 



this plant. One unfortunately died, but the other reached 

 Kew in perfect condition, having been carefully suspended in 

 a wooden box without earth. Sir Henry Barkly remarks that 

 plants of Hoodia as well as Piaranthu9 usually have a single 

 tap root with branchlets spreading out laterally at some depth, 

 and that they often die when transplanted. The Kew plant 

 appeared at first to be in excellent health, and after flowering 

 in 1875 made some growth, but at the beginning of the present 

 year it rotted off at the crown without apparent cause." — {Bot. 

 Mag., t. C2-28.) 



Odontoglossum PB.^NiTENS. Nat. ord., Oiahid&cem. Linn., 

 Gjnandria Monaudria. Flowers yellow, blotched with purplish 

 brown. — " 0. prenitens is a native of New Grenada, whence it 



