THE ILLUSTRATION HORTICOLE. 



LIVISTONA HOOGENDORPII. 



HOOGENDORP'S LIVISTONA. 



Nat. Oed. PALMACEAE. 



ETYMOLOGY : Dedicated by Robert Brown to Patrick Murray of Livistone near F linl.ur- 



GENERIC CHARACTER : Flores hermaphroditi, in spadice spat his pbrifa ,-'i •',' on . -,'- 



Calyx trifidus. Corolla tripartita. Stamina 6, filamenta in discum hypogynum co;ilit;i lathene 



tria, intus cohaerentia. Styli coalescentes, stigmatibus connati , rnmqlll . „„■„ 



ventrali testae radio horizontali ruminatum. Embryo dorsalis, — Pafanae in N<mt-HbOu»dia M it 



mediocri, frondium basibus persistentibus squamato, frondibus flabelliformibus . laciniis apiee bijjd 



ILivistona, R. Brown, Prodr., HI, 123. Mart., Palm., t. 110, 111. 115. 1 Ki. S,jw>ps m- 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER: For the description, see our next number. 



The introduction of living plants of the species which 

 formed the type of this beautiful genus L. australis occur- 

 red under very curious circumstances. 



It happened in this way : when Allan Cunningham was 

 acting as Government botanist in Australia, he sent some 

 cases of plants to Kew, in which his assistants, to save 

 themselves the trouble of seeking or preparing other means 

 of drainage, placed a quantity of Palm seeds. When the 

 cases were unpacked these seeds were found to be in course 

 of germination. And one of those seedlings has now become 

 one of the noblest ornaments of the Palm house at Kew. 

 Another specimen from the same source is, or rather was, 

 for we believe it perished with many other grand plants 

 in the unfortunate conflagration which laid a portion of 

 the building in ruins, at the Crystal Palace; and a third 

 adorns the large house at Herrenhausen , where M r Wend- 

 land has been obliged to lower the tub from time to time, 

 according as the crown rose and threatened to break through 

 the glass. 



This lesson was not lost. Mr. Smith, the curator of Kew 

 Gardens, made the fact known, and it has been the means 

 of hundreds of thousands of different Palm seeds reaching 

 this country in a satisfactory condition. Dr. Seemann, who 

 published the foregoing details , frequently made use of this 

 plan in the course of his long travels,and thereby succeeded in 



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The Livis 



tralia. Their 



white, maxillary panicles; and the I 

 unequal sided and of a bright blue 

 The species of this genus combine 

 with a peculiar grandeur and state! 

 JUnsiana, Griff., called Jokthpat by 

 is planted before the dwelling* of a 

 tants. The leaves are used for that 

 palanquins and boats, and for inal 

 The wood and leaves of /,. mt> <,ui;/n 

 the Celebes, are employed in rarioi 

 are known, six of which have bei 

 gardens: L. ausfmlis i. 

 sis, Mart. {Latania ft 

 L. rhinitis. •':»<'!• : > 

 Griff.; L.u\,.- 



rotundifolia, Lam.. Saribus rotundif 

 spectaUlis, Griff.? and lastly L. H<>, 

 here give a portrait. 



A NEW METHOD OF PROPAGATING ORANGE TREES, 

 We find a very amusing tale in the last Bulletin of the longitudinally into two equal part 

 Horticultural Society of Paris (1874, p. 154). It is worth done, and each of the disputants 

 making more widely known. The narrative is due to M. Hue the ointment of St, 

 (Julien), a gardener at Bois-commun, Loiret, who com- 

 municated it to the Society. 



" Two amateurs possessed an Orange tree in common. 

 They quarreled, each thought himself alone entitled to the 

 tree, and it became necessary to divide. No better plan 

 could be devised than that of sawing the wretched tree 



separately; and now two healthy I 

 bark having grown over the expo* 

 After this we need despair of not 5 

 who removed the pith from his < 

 obtain stoneless fruit, having found follow* 

 later I 



