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Coryplia Aust rails is recommended, as are also varie- 

 ties of Chamcedorea, as C. Harticegii, &c. Phcenix 

 dactylifera may be grown in a room from the kernel 

 of the fruit, which we have eaten. 



Phcenix reclinata, P. Immilis, P. sykestris, Cocos 

 coronata, and C. flexuosa, Ptychosperma Cunninghami, 

 Rhapis ftabelliformis, Sabal Andansonii, S. umbraculi- 

 Jera, Sea/orthia elegans, Tlirinax elegans, T. radiata, 

 may be here named, amongst many. 



I venture also to invite attention to varieties of 

 Ct/cacicfo, which family form a link between the Palms 

 and the Pine, and to which of late our amateurs seem 

 for the first time to pay much attention. Many of 

 these are ornamental in young stages, and easy of 

 management, bearing considerable hardship, and not 

 difficult to be procured. They like rather rich soil, 

 and to have it sometimes judiciously watered with 

 guano water or other liquid manure. I have known 

 seedlings of one kind, Emephalartos M'Kenii (I 

 believe from Queensland), and of others, to stand 

 throughout winter, near Dublin, in a cold frame. 

 JIacrozamias belong to the same family. 



For amateurs with ample means and scanty room 

 for indulging the taste, Nature has provided gems 

 which occupy but small space, and amongst others 

 many Orchids. One family of these little treasures, 

 Ancectoehylm, coming from Java and other hot coun- 

 tries, are terrestrial orchids, whose foliage, which is 

 a net-work of pretty colours, is their chief beauty. 

 The leaves of some varieties are traversed with fine 



