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exposed situations, warn against expecting any of 

 the family to withstand all vicissitudes of our wea- 

 ther and climates, wholly unprotected and unscathed. 



Perhaps enterprising men in trade, or amateurs, 

 may import from their native countries strong plants 

 of some of the Palms which have a reasonable hope 

 of looking well out of doors in Ireland ; and with 

 this view I also name Arcca sapida, from New Zea- 

 land, and A. Bauer i, from other southerly islands. 

 A few years ago, friends procured for me from Spain 

 a few vigorous stumps of that country's native Chct- 

 vicerops ; but they have not yet made as handsome 

 specimens as younger plants, seedlings, probably 

 would now be. 



About the time of first moving Palms at Grlas- 

 nevin from within to try outdoor life, a Cordyline or 

 Draccenopsis, which had spent some quarter of a cen- 

 tury in the conservatory, under the name Draccena 

 Amimlis, gave its place to something more requiring 

 indoor protection, and took its stand in an open 

 border near to the entrance gate. Here it for the 

 first time flowered ; and it ripened seed, from which 

 there are young plants. Hound the stem, which is 

 about nine feet long, is wound hay rope at the ap- 

 proach of winter ; and this plant alone would encou- 

 rage to perseverance in such experiments. But the 

 same, and one or more varieties, have stood out in 

 many parts of Ireland inland and near the sea, and 

 without any special protection ; and in both situa- 

 tions they have ripened seed. The stem is straight, 



