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Sp. BOUGAINVILLEA. 



This furnishes a strong and most gorgeous hedge. It 

 succeeds best in warm, moist situations near the South- 

 ^Eastern coast. The plants are expensive, but are easily 

 multiplied by layering. For hedge purposes the thorny 

 variety should be planted. 



Callitris arborecu. CLANWILLIAM CEDAR. 



This is the Cedar of the Cape, and in most respects the 

 most valuable of all the indigenous timbers. The wood has 

 every good quality of the typical Cedar, except that it is 

 somewhat light in colour. It is durable out of doors, in 

 the ground, and in any situation. It is easily worked. It 

 seasons well, and does not warp and twist like so many of 

 the other timbers indigenous to the Southern hemisphere. 

 It is strongly scented with a sweet aromatic perfume, that 

 has been compared to a mixture of Cedar, Camphor and 

 Sandal. A single plank, when freshty cut, will scent a 

 house for months. The wood is so imbued with an essential 

 oil that it distils naturally from the newly-cut wood, and 

 condenses on metal or other articles near it. Cape Cedar 

 is the only indigenous tree that has been successfully propa- 

 gated by broadcast sowings. Seed is abundant, good, and 

 easily obtainable at about 6d. to 8d. per Ib. 



It is, however, doubtful how far this tree will succeed 

 away from its home on the rugged Cedarberg, a range of 

 mountains situated 100 miles North of Cape Town, and 

 running up to about double the height of Table Mountain. 

 The Cedar grows there at an elevation of about 3,000 feet 

 in a dry climate, with occasional heavy falls of rain and 

 snow during the Winter. 



Planted on the plateau and slopes of Table Mountain, 

 Clamvilliam Cedar fails in a few years. The same result 

 has followed its planting in the Tulbagh valley at Ceres 

 Eoad. 



The appearance of this remarkable tree is very like that 

 of the common Cypress when young, and of the Atlantic 

 Cedar when old. In the Cedarberg it is being conserved 

 from cutting and fire, and extended by plantations. 580 

 seeds to the ounce. 



