SUBTROPICAL GARDENING. 

 PART II. 



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* Acacia Julibrissin. — A native of Persia, with large 

 and elegant much-divided leaves, and flowers somewhat 

 like short tinted brushes from the numerous purple sta- 

 mens. Though this does not succeed as a standard tree 

 in all parts of England (where it grows well against walls, 

 and sometimes flowers), yet doubtless it would do so in 

 some parts of the south, and I have seen it make present- 

 able standards about Geneva and in Anjou. But for our 

 purposes it is tetter that it should not be perfectly 

 hardy, as by confining it to a single young stem and 

 using young plants, or plants that have been cut down 

 every year, we shall get an erect stem covered with 

 leaves more graceful than a fern, and that is the kind 

 of ornament we want as a graceful object amidst low- 

 growing flowers. The leaves, like those of some other 

 plants of the pea tribe, are slightly sensitive. On fine 

 sunny days they spread out fully and afford a pleasant 

 shade ; on dull ones the leaflets fall down. This inte- 

 resting phenomenon takes place with other members of 

 the same family — for instance, the elegant A. dcalbata of 



* The names of all hardy species and ether kinds easily raised from 

 seed in spring (the kinds useful in all classes of garden), are preceded 

 by an asterisk. 



