City Squares, &c. 43 



interesting hybrids and cross-bred kinds may be ex- 

 pected from time to time to appear amongst us. I 

 made two unsuccessful attempts to grow /. latifolia 

 in Dublin ; and I do not remember having seen in 

 culture the somewhat similar splendid Holly which 

 is described in the 39th vol. of The Botanic Magazine, 

 Tab. 5597, from the Sikkim Himalayas. 



Of Yuccas, different varieties, such as Y. recurva, 

 Y. gloriosa, Y. flaccida, flowering again and again in 

 the same Square, proves their fitness for such places. 

 I believe any of the variegated kinds, all of whifch 

 are much admired, had not been tried out a whole year 

 in any other of our large cities or towns till I lately 

 made an experiment with a pretty strong plant, cover- 

 ing it overhead for winter. This is the filamentous 

 species ; and for some years, the Eev. Henry Ella- 

 combe has grown rather large specimens of the varie- 

 gated Aloe-leaved species close to a wall, against 

 which he fastens a board at close of autumn above 

 each plant, to protect it from rain, &c. 



Almost all one number of Mr. W. Saunders'.Zfr/^- 

 (jium Botanicum is devoted to descriptions by Mr. 

 J. GK Baker, and figures of different Yuccas; and 

 the same pen has elaborately described, in The Gar- 

 dener's Chronicle for 1870-1, all the species, and I 

 believe varieties then known in cultivation. Y. cana- 

 Uculata and others are figured in The Botanic Maya- 

 zinc. See Tab. 5201. 



Several New Zealand Cordylines, by some called 

 Dracccnopsis, promise to follow Yuccas as ornaments, 



