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Lhis part of the country : Acacia longissima, grandis, bio- 

 jhylla and varieties, linifolia and varieties, suaveolens, 

 rinervis, cultriformis , Hugeli and verticillata , inasmuch as 

 ;hev will withstand the winds , poor soils and grow in unfa- 



le situations, 

 pretty well known 



large size the Agaves 

 the South. Intermixed with the Cordylines men- 

 tioned above, there is a fine collection of these plants at 

 Villa Vi°"ier. The most beautiful and the strongest are- 

 .[,/ ,-, fhuibata.Solmiana, univittata, robusta, picta, fiu. 

 [.,-" ),ioj<>r, opplanata, ferox (an enormous specimen), etc. 

 Examples of Grevillea robusta, thirty feet; clumps of 

 Mahonia Nepalensis, ten feet; Dammara Brownii, twelve 

 feet; Yucca canaliculata , ten feet; Y. draconis, twelve feet; 

 Dasylirion gracile, splendid, six feet in diameter; numerous 

 gigantic specimens of Rhododendron arboreum, from Lago 

 Maggiore, covered with immense clusters of brilliant flowers; 

 an enormous clump of Metrosideros candelabrum, Grevillea 

 flexuosa, Myoporum pictum, and all the long list of flowering 

 shrubs and trees comparatively unknown farther North fur- 

 nished us with material for many hours of pleasure and 



rhich reproduced 

 11. Probably these 

 With age. 

 ur species, which 

 amount of shelter 

 s are frequently 

 1. A little known 

 ring sickly trees, 

 ts. It consists in 



The walls were covered with Banksian Roses, Bignonia 

 capreolata, Tacsonia ignea and Van-Volocemi , Plumbago 

 scandens, Buddlea Madagascariensis , Pelargonium capita- 

 turn, Bougainvillea spectabilis and splendens , various Roses 

 and all sorts of charming climbers , covering their supports 

 with a tapestry of flowers. 



There is a blank side to every picture. Here we must 

 seek no green turf during the summer, for no amount of 

 watering will preserve its verdure. After numerous trials, 

 a method has been discovered by which green lawns may 

 be had in Winter, the only season when this mild climate 

 is enjoyable. By the beginning of the month of June when 

 the residents leave, they are nothing but scorched and dried 

 up hillocks and tufts. They are left in this state till Septem- 

 ber, and then sown with hardy grasses , which remain short 

 and green during the Winter, and form a beautiful turf. 



If the foregoing description should induce any of our 

 readers to form an establishment in the South where they 

 could spend the Winter season , the taste for which is now 

 beginning to spread, they will find many other gardens 

 after the same style as that of Villa Vigier, offering many 

 and varied attractions for the plant lover. For example, the 

 gardens of M. Thuret, at Antibes, of M. Mazel, Gulf of 

 Genoa and of M. Denis, Hyeres. Elegant residences are 

 springing up in all directions in this delightful country, 

 where an easy, healthy existence is insured by a mild 

 climate and cloudless sky. Here are numerous places where 

 land is to be had, and everything combines to attract the 

 inhabitants of the north to this region of continuons spring. 



