August 3, 1892.] 



Garden and Forest. 



365 



close by New Norfolk. The onl)' route is up the bed of 

 the Lachlan. The sides of the hills are most precipitous, 

 and the bed of the river is a mass of dead timber, rocks, 

 boulders, waterfalls and everything else that can make 

 traveling dilificult. After ascending 2,500 feet we got to 



seed. Sphagnum grew abundantly about these giants, who 

 seem to love plenty of moisture at their roots and to enjoy 

 a rotten, peaty soil." 



The Kew examples of R. pandanifolia, which are now ten 

 years old (see illustration on this page), are two feet high 



Fi^. 61. — Richea pandanifolia.— See page 364. 



the top of the tier, a marshy, scrubby plateau, where, after 

 struggling through Baueria, Fagus Cunninghamii, Lepto- 

 spermum and cutting grass, I saw the first giant Richea. 

 There were about forty trees, and most of them were in 

 flower, but as the old flower-stalks and seed-vessels con- 

 tinue adherent to the tree, I succeeded in finding good 



and have leaves nearly two feet long. Judging by the 

 behavior of these plants, a full-grown specimen must be 

 many years old. They are evidently not difficult to man- 

 age in cultivation, and so far they have proved just as 

 happy in a hot moist stove as in an airy greenhouse. 

 They grow well in sandy peat, and like a liberal supply of 



