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be purchased for a few shillings ; and now, I believe, 

 from half a guinea to a pound, or more, is asked for 

 a young plant. Thrice I have received seed from its 

 native home, not a grain of which, though in most 

 experienced hands, has vegetated. Seed from some 

 of the first houses in London, described there as of 

 this plant, has grown with me and others, but not 

 one seedling proved to be what it professed to be for 

 which, however, I do not undertake to censure any- 

 one. In the summer of 1876, a friend, Fletcher 

 Moore, Esq., when moving from the sea-side, near 

 Dublin, to reside inland, gave me a plant of the Cor- 

 dyline called Charlwoodia, which had stood in his 

 garden near the sea for at least nearly fifteen 

 months, without special protection ; and I have it, 

 looking well, in town ever since, out of doors and un- 

 covered. In that same neighbourhood, near Salt- 

 hill, another species : very different from any I have 

 above named has borne the last two or more win- 

 ters or springs, out, in a very sheltered corner of the 

 garden of William Andrews, Esq. I believe this 

 plant, which flowered well there, is more of what is 

 now named Dracaena than any of those others. 



Yuccas, which are akin to the last-mentioned fami- 

 lies, have established such reputation in this country, 

 particularly for city ornament, that I again refer to 

 them ; and because my making a pretty good collec- 

 tion is much owing to watching the progress of those 

 at our own and some foreign Botanic Gardens. 

 Though most species bear Irish climates, and at least 



