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ARBORETUM AND FRUT1CETUM. 



PART III. 



cinnamon tree, is a native of the Island of Ceylon, and other parts of the East ; and it has been in. 

 troduced into South America, and the Isle of France, where it is cultivated for the bark. It is com- 

 monly considered as a stove plant, but it has ripened seeds in the conservatory of M Boursault, at 

 Paris, from which young plants have been raised, in 1827/1828, and 1829, and these plants have stood 

 the winter in the open air there for several years, with very little protection. It well deserves a trial, 

 therefore, against a conservative wall, in British gardens. 



C. Ciissia D. Don ; iaurus Cassia L. L. Cinnambmum Dot. Rep. ; Prsea Cassia Spr. ; the 

 Wild Cinnamon, Bot. Rep.,t. 596., which is a native of Ceylon, where it grows to the height of 50ft. or 

 60 ft, with large spreading branches, is thought to be nothing more than C. verum in a wild state. 



Other ligneous plants belonging to this order, natives of Japan, Mexico, the Cape of Good Hope, 

 and of New South Wales, and usually kept in green-houses, will be found enumerated in our Hortus 

 Britannicus. Most of them, we have no doubt, could make a much better appearance against a flued 

 conservative wall, than ever they can do in a house. 



CHAP. XCIV. 



OF THE HALF-HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS BELONGING TO THE 

 ORDER PROTEA'CEJE. 



ALL the plants of this order are ligneous ; and, with very few exceptions, are natives of Australia, 

 and the Cape of Good Hope. Many species have been introduced, belonging to upwards of 30 



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genera ; and, doubtless, there are a great number of these, particularly the natives of New Holland, 

 which would stand the winters of the climate of London against a conservative wall. 



Bdnks\& littorulis R. Br. is a native of New Holland, where it forms 

 a bush 8 ft high, A plant stood against a wall in the Horticultural 

 Society's Garden, from 1832 till it was killed by the severe spring of 

 1836. 



B. oblongifblia Cav., Bot Cab., 241., stood out with_us at Bayswater 

 for four years, but was killed in the spring of 1836. 



Grevillea. rosmarintfblia Cun. (fig. 1176.) is a very elegant plant, a 

 native of New South Wales, where it grows t? the height of 4 ft. or 

 5 ft. A plant has stood out in front of the stove at Kew, since 1826, 

 flowering freely every year. 



G. acuminata R. Br. (figs. 1177, 1178.) is also a native of New South 

 Wales, and is considered equally hardy with G. rosmarinifdlia. 



HMea aciculftris R. Br, Vent. Malm., 3. ; H. suavlolens R. Br. ; 

 and H. pugionifdrmis R. Br., Bot. Cab., 353., and our fig.1113. j have 

 stood out in the Horticultural Society's Garden since 1832. 



It is probable that most of the species belonging to this order are 

 equally nardy with those above enumerated ; and we should have 

 no hesitation in asserting that, against a flued wall, with straw hur- 

 dles to be set against it during severe weather, and taken off for an 

 hour or more every fine day, all the Protedce< might be exhibited in 

 the climate of London in greater vigour and beauty than they are in 

 their native countiy. This may be thought a bold assertion ; but, as 

 it holds good in the case of .Erica and Pelargdnium, we see no reason 

 why, if the same care were applied, the same should not follow in the 

 case of all the plants of this very interesting order. 



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CHAP. XCV. 



OF THE HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE ORDER THYMELA^CE,ffi. 



THESE belong to two genera, Daphne L. and Dirca L. t which have the 

 following characters : 



