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CHAPTER IV. 



THE HOT-HOUSE. 



BAUHINIA. IPOMCEA COCCINEA AND QUAMOCLIT. HIBISCUS ROSA- 



SINENSIS. HIBISCUS ESCULENTUS. MALVACEJE. COTTON. 



ILLICIUM FLORIDANUM AND ANISATUM. ANISETTE. MARASCHINO. 

 MERISES. MAY DUKE. BIGARREAU. KIRSCHENWASSER. WAL- 

 NUTS. VANILLA. VIOLET SHERBET. BERTOLA's LINES TO 

 THE VIOLET. ROSE APPLE. INDIAN RUBBER. BANYAN TREE. 



MILTON, SOUTHEY, AND MOORfi's LINES. DRAGON TREE OF 



OROTAVA. BAOBAB. COCOA NUT. MONK1ES TRAINED TO 



FETCH THE FRUIT. SEYCHELLES ISLAND COCOA NUT. ALBUMEN. 



ORANGE TREES AT SORRENTO. 



" How exquisitely sweet 

 This rich display of flowers! 

 This airy wild of fragrance, 

 So lovely to the eye, 

 And to the sense so sweet!" 



HENRIETTA. 



WHAT a curious saddle-shaped leaf this creeper has ! 



MRS. CLIFFORD. 



Yes; it is divided into two singular, oval lobes. The plant 

 is the Bauhinia, a climber of South America, in the woods of 

 which, it twines round the highest trees, and the monkies 

 use it for ladders. On the borders of the Orinoco, its leafless 

 branches are often forty feet long. Sometimes they fall 

 perpendicularly from the elevated top of the Mahogany;* at 

 others, they stretch themselves diagonally from one tree to 

 another, like the ropes of a ship, and the tiger-cats run up 



* Stoietenia Mahogani De Candolle. 



