THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 247 



THE GLOET PEA. 



lOUsay, in your "Amateur's Greenhouse," the "Clianthns 

 Dampieri " is from New Zealand. This is an error. 

 The New Zealand Clianthus is a shrub. I have grown 

 it in my garden for several years, and prune it every 

 winter. Neither foliage, flowers, nor brightness of 

 colour approach near to our Clianthus. Tou call it the Glory pea; 

 it -well deserves the name ; we call it the Sturt Pea, after Capt. 

 Sturt, the explorer, who first brought the seeds to Adelaide thirty 

 years ago, in many places from two hundred and fifty to eight hun- 

 dred miles from Adelaide. It grows wild, like your English vetehea, 

 covering hundreds and thousands of acres, cattle and sbeep feeding 

 and fattening on it. "We find the seeds germinate in sandy soil 

 very readily ; but on many of our native seeds we have to pnur 

 boiling hoi wafer at night and soak them till morning. The 

 country around Adelaide brings the most lovely flowers and shrubs 

 to perfection. You should see our Botanic Gardens, under the care 

 of Dr. Schomburgk, brother of Sir R. Schomburgk, the discoverer of 

 the Victoria Regia Lily, you would pronounce them worthy to be 

 numbered amongst the most lovely public gardens in the whole 

 world. We have about three thousand acres of public park-lands 

 surrounding our beautiful city, and to the east a noble amphitheatre 

 of lovely hills embraces us, the gulleys supplying us with the finest 

 vegetables all the year round. 



We produce the most glorious fruits, rich, ripe grapes, worth 

 £3 10s. to £4) 10s. per ton. Apricots, figs, peaches, loquats in the 

 greatest abundance from October to April. The oranges are now 

 ripening ; all the good kinds are grown — Mandarines, Navel, Multese 

 blood, Paramatta, etc. Our pears melt in your mouth. Wc have a 

 glorious land. Strangers say our summer is hot ; if so, it is healthy. 

 The fact is, we have not twenty-one days of really unpleasantly hot 

 weather all the year. I am only a plain man of business, so I can't 

 talk dog Latin and give you the names of our native plants, or I 

 would do so. If you will accept the few enclosed seeds of the 

 white Sturt Pea, you are heartily welcome to them. The sort, 

 originally, I believe, came from the neighbourhood of Nicholl Bay, 

 on the norih-west coast. Some of them come nearly white with ua, 

 others white-striped or variegated. Don't give thom too much 

 water. With us they flower through August, September, October, 

 and November. 



I wonder well-to-do Englishmen don't make up their minds to 

 spend a few hundred pounds in a year's holiday in visiting the 

 Australian colonies oftener than they do. We are really the wonder 

 of the century. 



4, Hindley Street, Adelaide. E. EnwAEDS. 



An International Horticultural Exhibition por 1877 is now under con- 

 sideration. A meeting of the leading borticultarists was held at St. James' Hall 

 on July 21. 



Augnst. 



