Hooker wrote :— " There are many good reasons i\,r%neouragin- 
the cultivation of the once favourite genus M>\«'»i'>r)/<t»thrmitm, 
amongst which not the least is their duration, for when once 
established they need never be lost ; they are. further, evergreen. 
cost little in soil or cleaning, and many ot' them are amnn-rst the 
M. abbreviatum. Ihtw. Salm-Dyck, 
M. acinaciforme. L. Salm-Dyck. Me: 
