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age is hidden by the wide-spread, platter-like flowers 

 of pale yellow, its effect is very beautiful, especially 

 when thrown up by a background of green foliage. 

 In the autumn the fruits, from which it takes its 

 name of Strawberry tree, some an inch or more in 

 diameter, become bright crimson. 



BORONIA. Australia. These are almost univer- 

 sally treated as greenhouse plants, but succeed in 

 the open air in the south-west. At Tregothnan, at 

 the end of March, two bushes of B. megastigma, 

 planted in front of a wall, the larger of which was 

 about 3 feet in height, were coming into profuse 

 bloom, and already scented the air with the first of 

 their brown, yellow-lined, drooping cups. B. 

 heterophylla, with its purple-red flowers was also 

 expanding blooms, and B. Drummondii, B. elatior, 

 and B. polygalcefolia were also growing in the same 

 garden. 



BRACHYGLOTTIS REPANDA. New Zealand. A 

 handsome tree, with leaves nearly a foot in length 

 and numerous minute flower-heads. Tresco. 



BUDDLEIA COLVILLEI. Sikkim. The finest of the 

 new race, with pendulous racemes, nearly a foot in 

 length, of crimson, pentstemon-like flowers, paler 

 round the centre, an inch across. Leaves large and 

 dark green, 6 inches or more in length. Several 

 gardens. 



CALLISTEMON SALIGNUS. Australia. There are 

 two forms of this Bottle-brush, one bearing pale- 

 yellow flowers and the other crimson. Others are C. 

 lanceolatus, carmine-flowered, and C. speciosus, scarlet- 



