82 Villas. 



at Roebuck Castle ; Mr. Stawell Webb, at Monks- 

 town, near Dublin ; Mr. liiall, near Bray, may be 

 specially named. 



From time to time, and unexpectedly, we see an 

 exotic plant growing out in parts of Ireland, and 

 even well, where we would little predicate that it 

 would survive one winter and spring. Above twenty 

 years ago, on visiting Downpatrick Gaol, during the 

 Spring Assizes, the Governor showed me a rather 

 strong plant of the common Heliotrope, on the gar- 

 den wall, where it lived from the previous spring ; 

 and one of the same kind has been for more than 

 twelve years how many I cannot say in an open 

 border of Merrion Square, deciduous late in autumn, 

 and growing up afresh on returning spring. Some 

 years ago, amongst many shrubs in the collection of 

 the late Mr. Whitla, Cave Hill, near Belfast, I was 

 surprised to see one of the Australian Hakeas with 

 ripe nuts a plant which I had seldom before seen 

 even indoors in Ireland. Afterwards it stood out 

 some years with me at Malahide, and flowered well 

 at close of winter or in early spring. 



In more places than one, specimens of the edible 

 tea shrubs are receiving fair trial whether they will 

 more than exist amongst us; I know some in the 

 counties of Wicklow and Cork ; and when I had a 

 garden at Malahide I was giving two varieties a 

 trial there, which I had not an opportunity of seeing 

 sufficiently proved. 



There are numbers of plants of which it would be 



