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the other plants are huddled together to make room for the 

 annual winter exhibition of florists' varieties of Chrysanthe- 

 mums, at once the admiration and envy of many a private 

 grower in Oxford, a town famous for the Winter Show* of 

 the Oxfordshire Chrysanthemum Society, the jubilee of which 

 will probably be celebrated in 1912. At Easter their place is 

 taken by White Arum Lilies, Richardia aethiopica, from the 

 Cape, and other appropriate plants. 



Among plants grown for the sake of their foliage are several 

 species of Canna, often treated as bedding-plants in this 

 country; the Labiates, Coleus thyrsoideus and others; Moschosma 

 riparium ; Cretan Dittany, Origanum dictamnus, well known 

 to herbalists; the large-leaved Composites, Farfugium grande 

 from China, and Humea elegans from Australia, both nearly- 

 related to the Cineraria. 



Other rare or noteworthy species are : 



Abutilon lawitzii Podalyria biflora 



Anigozanthus flavida Polygala apopetala 



Azara gilliesii Primula kewensis x 



Corosceia cotoneaster Thomasia quercifolia 



Lilium sulphureum Watsonia ardernei 



Peucedanum fraxinifolium 



NOS. 5, 6, AND 7 STOVE-HOUSES 

 (North Block) 



Look, here is the banana a-bearing of its fruit, 

 And here you've got the plantain and the cocoa-nut to boot : 

 The coffee-plant in berry you also here may see, 

 And likewise the prickly pear and the Ingy-rubber-tree, 

 The Ingy-rubber-tree. Punch. 



The north block of stove-houses and the corridor outside the east 

 wall of the Garden, were erected in 1894 by Messrs. Boyd of Paisley. 



They took the place of a range of glass-houses of 84 ft. in length, 

 which were partly lean-to against the outside of the Garden wall, partly 



* An eighteenth-century precursor of such a "Florist Feast" was 

 " A Show of Carnations in the Town Hall, August 8, 1782." 



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