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which die in the winter of Pennsylvania, abound in our gar- 

 dens. Among the favorites are the Pauline, Malmaison, 

 Madame Laffay, Model of Perfection, Raglan, Hopper, Giant 

 of Battles, Prince Charles, Devoniensis, Lamarck, Clara Wen- 

 del, Glory of Jena, and Agrippina. 



A marked feature of our ornamental gardening is our ability 

 to cultivate in the open air many plants which can only be 

 preserved in this latitude east of the Rocky Mountains un- 

 der glass, and with the aid of artificial heat. These plants 

 are too numerous to be all specially named here ; but some 

 of the more important are the geranium, fuchsia, orange, 

 camelia japonica, laurastinus, myoporum, ericas, casuarina, 

 daphne, eucalyptus, metrosideros, and thirty varieties of 

 acacia, twenty of them from Australia. It might be al- 

 most said that we have no hot-houses in the State, but 

 only green-houses, for it is scarcely ever necessary to make 

 a fire, even to protect the most delicate of tropical plants. 

 Our climate is very favorable to the growth of evergreens, es- 

 pecially to those strange and beautiful ones from Australia, 

 with the graceful growth, and the brilliant, feathery foliage. 



Among the creeping vines grown in California is the 

 Australian bean, which has a dense, bright, evergreen foliage, 

 and abundant flowers throughout the year. It climbs strings, 

 and is therefore well suited to shade verandas, and to grow in 

 the front of porticoes. 



The rose, the honeysuckle, the veronica, the oleander, the 

 laurastinus, the euonymus japonica, and the verbenas espe- 

 cially the lemon verbena may safely be said to make twice 

 as much wood in a year as they do on the Atlantic Coast. The 

 geraniums in San Francisco are almost trees. Rose-sprouts 

 often grow twenty feet in a season, and other plants in propor- 

 tion. There is scarcely any tree or shrub cultivated in the At- 

 lantic States which does not thrive equally as well here, except 

 the weeping willow. 



