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flowers), Tecoma australis (pale yellow), Jasminum primulinum, 
Pilocarpus appre be (with slender racemes of lurid purple flowers, 
see Bot. Mag. t. 7235), Odontospermum sericeum (yellow flowers and 
silky grey foliage), Lochroma lanceolata, Pittosporum phillyraeoides 
(with elegant pendulous branchlets clothed with blossom) ; Sophora 
secundiflora (a bushy evergreen 10 ft. high with Wistaria-like 
thyrses of dark blue and white flowers, attikingly handsome), 
Dosliguens erebra (with rugged cork-like bark), Leptospermum laevi- 
gatum ; Cytisus filipes 10 ft. high, a cascade of milk-white flowers. 
Succulent plants thrive remarkably well and there is a very 
extensive collection of them. Among Agaves, the vividly ne Spann 
long covered with a white membranous sheath. Of ordinary flower- 
ing things like roses it is not necessary to write, bar they made a 
beautiful display, and here I first saw the glorious masses of the 
various Banksian roses in bloom which give to Italian gardens at 
this season their greatest charm 
HYERES. 
The a coHmBHyRaee Garden at Hyéres is a branch of the estab- 
lishment at Paris. The most imposing trees in the garden are 
Eucalyptus ae which, both here and at Villa Thuret, over- 
shadow all native trees. It was here I first saw in quantity Pitto- 
sporum Tobira, a Japanese rae. It is the most conspicuous 
evergreen in this garden and bore large crops of Papi aged scented 
flowers, open and in bu n the gardens of and even Dal- 
matia this Pittosporum is planted i in great Me os being only less 
abundant than Luonymus japonicus an nd much more pleasing. It is 
always effective either as a picturesque isolated bush (I saw them 
25 ft. high on the Isle of Lacroma), 1 in masses, or as a hedge. It 
promises to fill the same place in these countries as Rhododendron 
ponticum or Cherry laurel does at home, and is perhaps in danger of 
being equally overplanted. At Hyéres, Melaleuca thymifolia % is 25 ft. 
high, its slender pendulous branches extremely elegant, Cereus monst- 
rosa is 10 ft. high, and deserving of mention are two fine pyramidal 
examples of Juniperus drupacea (male and female), “ne a group of 
five magnificent Washingtonia robusta, perhaps 50 
eres is noted for the abundance of palms, peri Phoeniz 
canariensis, in its streets. They meet the eye at every turn and 
many of them are now of great size, with rugged picturesque trunks. 
I believe the town is proud of them. A rainy morning, such as the 
one when I was there, is certainly not the best time to appreciate 
avenues of Phoenix, but it a peared to me that the sullen grey tints 
of these innumerable palms give a sombre, almost funereal, aspect 
to the town 
Vituta Tuuret, Cap pv’ ANTIBES. 
On a hill outside the little town of Antibes is the famous garden 
of Villa Thuret, containing an extensive collection of exotic trees 
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and shrubs founded chiefly by the late Charles Naudin. It i 
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