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the few recorded are more than are wanted, if their value 

 is to be estimated from the gardener's point of view. We 

 begin with T. uvaria, as the best of the group in respect 

 of hardiness, amplitude of dark, rigid leafage, and an 

 abundant production of its cylindrical racemes of fiery- 

 flowers. 



The varieties known as T. glaucescens and T. Bitrchelli 

 have no special value as garden flowers, but will prove 

 interesting to amateurs whose tastes range freely amongst 

 plants. But for T. nolilis and for T. grand is a good word 

 may be said. These are noble plants, and have a remark- 

 ably fine effect when well placed in a spacious rockery. T. 

 nohilis is scarce und dear; T. uvaria is plentiful and 

 cheap, and the best for all general purposes, though in cha- 

 racter below that of T. nolilis. 



Tritoma caulescens is a beautiful plant, with peculiar 

 glaucous leafage and a stout stem, bearing a dense head 

 of flowers of a fiery-red colour passing into yellow. It is 

 strikingly distinct, and a proper adornment of a roomy 

 rockery, where it should have a sumiy situation on a well- 

 drained sandy soil. It is hardy, but unequal to the en- 

 durance of severe conditions ; therefore it is advisable to 

 give it some protection during frosty weather. 



T. eariio&a is a good plant, of smallish growth, forming 

 a series of tufts, from which rise the flower-stalks, a foot or 

 more high, bearing crowded flowers of a rich orange-buff 

 colour. 



T. Macowani is a pretty little plant, usually regarded 

 as requiring greenhouse cultivation, although it is probably 

 hardy. The flowers are in a dense cluster, the tube red, 

 the mouth yellow. 



T. Boqperi is a grand plant, from British Kaffraria. 



