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then began to ascend at the rate of about 3 inches yearly, 

 while during this period the plant formed heads of fresh 

 fronds both in spring and autumn. About the year 1880 

 the fronds began to bear spores, and since then it has 

 grown annually about 2 inches, and it has also sent out 

 yearly only one crown, developed in spring, and consisting of 

 eighteen or more fronds, each of them about 6 feet in 

 length and 2 feet in breadth. The stem is now 2 feet 



2 inches high, and 2 feet 3i inches in girth ; it is a mag- 

 nificent plant. 



Dicksonia squarrosa. — This plant was brought from 

 Canterbury, New Zealand, and was given me by Mr Gray, 

 Newfield. It is in perfect health. The fronds are 3 feet 

 3h inches in leugth, and 14 inches in breadth. 



CORDTLINE. 



The plants of this genus receive in Australia the name 

 of "the Victoria palm," or "the cabbage palm." At 

 Cromla, Corrie, where three species grow, they are worthy 

 of the name "palm," as the largest, a plant of Cordylirie 

 indivisa, sown by me in 1873, and planted in 1875, is now, 

 including leaves, 13 feet in height, and has a stem 1 foot 



3 mches in girth. It may be expected soon to bloom. 



Acacia. 



The most graceful and beautiful of all evergreen shrubs 

 are the pinnatifid species of this genus. That they are so 

 considered in Australia, from which most of them come, 

 appears from the name there given them " feather-leaf." 

 I am happy to report most favourably of them in Arran. 

 The Black Feather-leaf {Acacia decurrens),OTiQ of the most 

 beautiful, and also the most delicate in foliage, is now 

 growing at Craigyard, Lamlash. It is, like the other 

 species, a standard, 7 feet 10 inches in height, and is 

 growing in great luxuriance. It grows also at the Lamlash 

 Cemetery. Another variety, named the Feather-veined 

 Feather-leaf {Acacia penninervis) , of a blue-green shade, 

 which does not close its pinnules at night, and in dull 

 weather, as does the other, also grows at Craigyard, 

 Lamlash. A third Feather-leaf {^A. longifolia) grows at 



