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CASSELL'S POPULAE GARDENING. 



After flowering, Banksias produce large woody teneath, and furnished at the margins with a few 

 cones, in which their seeds are enclosed, many of spines ; flowers pale yellow, very showy, on large 



them heing very grotesque in form. 



B. australis. — ^A compact -growing plant, seldom 

 exceeding six feet in height, with small dark green 



oblong heads. 



B. dryandroides. — A charming small - growing 

 plant with pinnate leaves, resembling some of the 







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Azaleas. 



leaves, which are silver}-- white beneath; flowers smaU-growing simple-leaved Polj^iodiums;, lobes 



^^^^- _ _ triangular, dark green above, ferruginous beneath; 



B. compar. — This is considered by some a variety flowers pale yellow. 

 onlyof^.Mfe^n/o?t«; it differs, however, in having 5. /oKosB.—Leaves oblong, deep green above, 

 the margins of its leaves serrated ; they are dark clothed with a greyish tomentum on the under side, 

 green above, and silvery-white beneath; flowers finely serrated on the margins; flowers greenish- 

 straw-colour, yellow ; a highly ornamental plant. 



B Cmnmffhmnii.—A handsome dwarf species, B. Sooherii.—K noble plant, with broad and 



with narrow dark green leaves, which are hoary deeply-lobed pinnatifid leaves, dark green above, 



