110 Mr William Gorric ow tho. 



lings, from a 13 feet high plant which in 1877 flowered, 

 seeded, and then died, have proved perfectly hardy in 

 various soils and exposures. This bamboo is highly 

 deserving of more general cultivation from its elegance of 

 habit, as well as for flower sticks and other useful purposes. 



10. B. Metake. — Two plants of this handsome Japanese 

 species, grown for some years in different exposures, have 

 never suffered from frost, the largest is now a somewhat 

 spreading rooted bush, 7 feet high, with a diameter of fully 

 3| feet, and sending up numerous vigorous shoots. 



11. B. nana. — A densely bushy, somewhat spreading 

 rooted species, with shoots of only about a foot in length, 

 is specially suited for rockery culture. 



12. B. nigra. — A plant with black coloured stems, which 

 has been in the open ground for the last three years, is 

 now rather over Si feet in heiglit, and presents a graceful 

 habit of growth. 



13. B. Rogmoushii. — A handsome broad-leaved, rather 

 slow-growing species. 



14. B. striata argentea is growing freely both on the 

 rockery and in the open ground. 



15. B. Violacea. — Resembles No. 12, but has lighter 

 coloured bark. 



16. Chamoirops Fortunii. — Fortune's Chusan palm. A 

 young plant grown for three years on a southerly exposed 

 rockery, had only the points of two unprotruded leaves 

 injured last winter, and is now growing freely. 



17. Clerodendron Bungeanum. — This hardiest representa- 

 tive of an important genus of stove and greenhouse plants, 

 after standing the two preceding winters on a south wall, 

 growing to a height of 4 feet, and flowering freely, was 

 killed down to near the ground in that of 1879-80, but is now 

 sending up vigorous growing shoots, with handsome purple 

 shaded, deep green leaves. 



18. Collctia liorrida. — Sometimes called G.ferox in nursery 

 lists. Seems the hardiest of several very spiny, evergreen 

 bushes, which constitute this genus, having stood last 

 winter uninjured. The names of Chilian and Peruvian 

 whins or furze, sometimes applied to them, is most applic- 

 able to this species. 



19. Grambe cordifoUa. — This gigantic sea-kale of the 



