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Grevillea robusta. SILK-OAK. 



A medium-sized tree with pretty fern-like leaves and 

 brilliant yellow flowers It has a useful but not durable 

 timber, that is prettily marked in specimens that are cut, or 

 split, parallel to the medullary rays. A native of the 

 warmer eastern coast of extra-tropical Australia. It will 

 not grow in the colder parts of Cape Colony, but succeeds 

 fairly in the warmer. It prefers summer watering or rain 

 as in the E. of the Colony. Easily raised from seed like 

 the Gums. It grows well in S. India, lat, 12 deg. K, and 

 3,000 ft. elevation, mean temp. 10 deg. above that of Cape 

 Colony, so that this tree would probably succeed in 

 Mashonaland and the plateaux of the interior. 1 ounce of 

 clean seed averages 4,580 grains. 



Hakea suaveolens. THE COMMON HAKEA. 



Completely naturalized and the commonest of all hedge 

 plants in the Cape Peninsula. It is very hardy there, and 

 may be clipt to any size, though ifc is perhaps best adapted 

 to high hedges and tall wind screens. It rapidly forms an 

 impenetrable hedge. Cattle will not eat it. It does not 

 stand the frost of up-country. It takes 6 muids of cones 

 to make 1 Ib. of seed. 1 ounce of unsifted seed averages 

 1,814 grains. 



Hakea" gibbosa. THE PRICKIY ?HAKEA. 



Indigenous or naturalized, this species is common on the- 

 slopes of Table Mountain. It. makes a less dense but more 

 prickly hedge than the common Australian Hakea. 



Hcirpephyllum cafrum. KAFRE-PLUM or DOG-PLUM 



Of indigenous trees this is one of the most desirable to 

 plant, it being hardier and faster-growing than most of the 

 native trees. The young plants with their large, glossy, 

 dark-green, sickle-shaped leaves, the shoots tipped red, are 



