November 23, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
613 
t 
cblique, 
sub-acute sinus between; veins on gs or forked, 
the latter abruptly pass. Though the fronds are 
larger, the pinnæ are only half the number of tho 
of melano$richum. The cutting of the pinnæ is 
exactly like that of Xiphopteris fronds, Р, achille- 
folium, f Ecuador and Brazil, is the only 
i group. G, S, Jenman 
Demerara, Oct, 24, 1895. 
Fic. 103.—corpyLing BANKSII, ON STEWART ISLAND. 
Po 
not excurrent; sori terminal on А: short spur-like 
anterior branch, one be e£ch s 
athered 9 matted = 3 
spur-like seg t 
om their top, darker colour, and the distinct ter- 
nal pinna similar to the lateral,and into which 
e Lo ON 
T ISLAND 
nis fine 5 alm- m ” is one of s moat beautiful 
and interesting plant s in the New Zealand fiore, 
Alt onally cultivated in the southern 
* 
A 
= © 
LJ 
and the picturesque long drooping 
leaves, The drawing мама herewith, fig. 103, ia 
from а photograph taken by Ds, J. R. Riley, of 
Vinton, and represents a specimen of the Banks 
Palm- lily planted as a seedli 
Mr. Charles Traill d fowering for 
the first time in ) Its present heig 
from the base the he а of the 
tpm is about 11 feet; the leaves are betwee 
resembling а Seer A- of ramif white coral, 
0 m-Lily, C. 9 —ů differing | in ite 
short stiff leaves, and smaller m 
2 wei 
ted with m а 
jarger tha that of Cook Strait, say about 42 inches 
pera 
E — account of its flowering plants and Ferns waa 
uth Cape, lat, 47° 20’, ones of to 45° 50’, 
as usally — in our text- ‘boo 
The 
A "1 
is — squarrosa ; the trees shown at the back 
ате the Kamahi, Weinmannia гасешоға, T, Kirk 
Colonial Museum, Wellington 
VEGETABLES, 
KITCHEN GARDEN CROPS IN 1895, 
now compare notes oe previous 
years, and it well to do во for future 
guidance. In this dixtrict we ааг somewhat 
severely from the extreme cold in February, rot 
1 nd was rendered unworkable 
till q ute late, which prevented us from getting many 
of the в and planted at the time we shoul 
ry dry nth, fen only 0 14 of an 
4 iti sali fell v with us, еу me being the case in 
June, when 0°36 fell, while Tal was by far the 
pone beng of the whole year. 
Asp was by no means so plentiful as in 
some be years, while Peas suffered ао much 
from the slugs in April, ws they made but a poor 
show wá a long ems and w 
than usual. of the 8 
ere well, even till the end of the s 
3 fine were Sutton’s Late Queen, h 
Main Crop, and Eckford’s Memorial. Cauliflo owers 
got well established during the showery weather in 
April, and these produced heads, the like of which 
