3 o Dwelling- houses. 



high, where the natives eat the young inflorescence, 

 calling the plant Nikau. 



Chamcerops Mart la na ascends the Western Hima- 

 layas to about 8000 feet elevation ; and growing to a 

 height of abont 40 feet, has much of its fronds annu- 

 ally covered with snow. I believe C. Griffitliiana, or 

 Pritchiana, is a small creeping species, found in 

 masses high on barren hills of Afganistan and Beloo- 

 chistan. 



Of deciduous perennials, that commonly called five- 

 fingerd Ivy, or Virginian creeper, Ampelopsis hedera- 

 cca, is especially suited for balconies. The species or 

 variety named Veitchii, or Roylii, or tricuspidata, 

 from Japan, is of much more compact habit than our 

 old acquaintance. It clings to walls or trees with 

 tenacity, I believe, exceeding that of Ivy; and its 

 green foliage of summer changes early in Autumn 

 to rich purplish-brown crimson, retaining this foliage 

 much later than the American plant. They grow in 

 ordinary garden soil, and are readily increased from 

 layers or cuttings. 



Biynonia radicans and B. (jrandiflom are handsome 

 climbers, with large bunches of orange bloom, and 

 will bear our winters in many more places than have 

 tried them. I have seen Bignonias very showy in 

 the southerly parts of England and Ireland ; and I 

 particularly admired some in the gardens of M. Alex- 

 andre Behas' Hotel du Pare at Lugano. Somewhat 

 resembling these, but on a smaller scale of foliage 

 and flower, Eccremocarpus has been long admired in 



