FAVOURITE FLOWERS 
OF 
GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
NORFOLK ISLAND PINE 
Natural Order CoNIFERZ. Genus Araucaria 
ARAUCARIA (from Araucanos, the native name of A. imbricata in Chili). 
A small genus of noble evergreen trees, with small persistent scale-like 
leaves, which are flattened, pointed, stiff, and usually overlapping. The 
spreading branches are arranged in whorls. The sexes are in separate 
flowers: the males in terminal cylindrical spikes, each anther divided 
into a number of cells; the females in cones. The latter when ripe are 
large and globular, covered with overlapping woody scales, some barren, 
others bearing a single seed. There are about seven species, natives of 
South America and Australasia. 
With Conifers as trees we have little concern in this 
work, but Araucarias more than any other genus of the 
group lend themselves to pot or tub cultivation in greenhouses and 
conservatories, in a young condition. They are all of modern discovery 
and introduction. A. imbricata was introduced from Chili in 1792 by 
A. Menzies, to whom the nuts were offered as dessert. He put a 
few of them into his pocket and brought them to Kew. A. ercelsa, 
the Norfolk Island Pine, was sent to Kew by Governor Phillips, of New 
South Wales, in the year 1793. In 1819 A. brasiliana was introduced 
from mountain districts of Southern Brazil. About 1826 Allan Cunning- 
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History. 
