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Orcodaphnc Catfformca has been spoken of as a 

 splendid addition to our gardens, if it stand our 

 winters, which in many places it has done for several 

 years. It is one of the handsome trees for which we 

 are indebted to California, and which at any stage is- 

 well worth attention. David Douglass speaks of 

 taking shelter under a well-grown tree which was so 

 sweet, aromatic, and pungent, that it produced such 

 violent sneezing, that even in a hurricane he felt 

 obliged to move elsewhere. A specimen has grown 

 for many years against a wall in the inclosed ground 

 at Grlasnevin, always looking healthy ; and a large 

 bush is against Mr. Ellacomb's dwelling-house at 

 Bitton. Native hunters make a decoction from the 

 leaves. 



At East Ferry, near Queenstown, county of Cork, 

 are interesting collections, which daily become more 

 so, in what may be called villa-grounds, of Mr. Bag- 

 well, Mr. Gumbleton, and others. In the first of 

 these places, I particularly observed Bruymamia sau- 

 guinea in strong force after surviving some winters 

 out. Likewise at Bitton, near Clifton, where it has 

 lived many years. Lately I observed in the villa - 

 garden of Mr. M'Master, at Simmonscourt, near 

 Dublin, several vigorous shoots, of last summer's 

 growth, from a tuft which has been some years in an 

 open border. These plants have been treated as 

 herbaceous, dying down for winter and spring, and 

 the roots are covered with turf-mould or cinders. I 

 have read a description of a large shrub living out 



