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yellow from January to May, and thus rendering the green- 

 house or conservatory gay and attractive during several dull 

 months. They are easily grown into good flowering plants, 

 and should be potted in a mixture of peat and loam, in 

 equal parts, with a good quantity of sand. When flowering 

 is past they may be placed in the open air, which will greatly 

 benefit them. It is much to be regi-etted that so few species 

 are to be found in our gardens, as their hardiness renders 

 them most desirable plants, either for the conservatory, the 

 decoration of the sitting-room, or as ornaments for the win- 

 dow of the cottager. The tropical species we have entirely 

 omitted, as they require to be grown to a large size before 

 they bloom. Some of the species are well adapted for 

 training upon pillars, or over the back walls of the green- 

 house, when that structure is not a span-roofed one, and 

 in such positions make beautiful objects. 



A. argyrophylla. — A handsome shrub, growing to a height 

 of several feet, and furnished with obliquely obovate or 

 oblong silvery silky phyllodes, and axillary stalked globular 

 heads of yellow flowers. Native of South Australia. 



A. armata. — This species grows from six to eight or more 

 feet in height. The so-called leaves (phyllodia) are obliquely 

 ovate, entire, and of a rich dark green colour. The flower 

 heads are solitary in the axils, and are like little stalked 

 balls of rich golden yellow. It is a native of Australia, 

 extending from New South Wales to Western Australia, and 

 blooms in great profusion from AprU to June. 



A. cochUaris. — A rigid-growing glabrous species, pro- 

 ducing its globular heads of bright yellow fragrant flowers, 

 in pairs, from the axils of the leaves or phyllodes, in 

 January ; these latter are linear-lanceolate, deep green, 

 and terminate in a sharp point. Native of Western Aus- 

 tralia. 



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