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70 Botanic Gardens. 



the admiration it attracted amongst the few persons 

 who saw it, seed and seedlings have been introduced 

 freely enough to make it now pretty well known 

 amongst us. In a small but interesting nursery- 

 garden, at Place Beau-Sejour, in a suburb of Mar- 

 seilles, I found a good collection of Yuccas, and at 

 reasonable prices. I saw a plant of Y. Trecukana 

 standing six feet high, which the proprietor, Mr, 

 Francois Ferrand, had shortly before my visit in au- 

 tumn, 1873, sold for three hundred francs. I bought 

 some seedlings of this variety, and in the nursery of 

 Mr. Durand, at Bourg la Heine, near Paris, I bought, 

 amongst others, a pretty strong plant of the same. 

 This plant, with little suffering, from which it soon 

 recovered, bore the severe winter of 1871-2, when the 

 thermometer fell below '25 centegrade, which was 

 much lower than its average coldest point near Paris. 

 This species has also stood out well the last few year& 

 at our College Botanic Gardens. At F. Ferrand's I 

 also bought a few young plants of Y. quadricolor, of 

 which he was growing several from cuttings made 

 of sprouts from an old decapitated stump, some 

 two and a-half feet or more high. The head, which 

 he cut off in spring, was forming a handsome youiig v 

 plant. 



Y. filament osa varicyata has lived out many years 

 in a border at our Trinity College gardens ; and 

 though Mr. Bain occasionally covered it in winter, 

 he often told me that he thought it should not be 

 covered in this climate. 



