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species, the bracts surrounding the small flowers being 

 bright magenta colored or red, making of the plant when 

 in bloom a gorgeous show; the flaming bignonia (Pyros- 

 tegia venusta); the blue bignonia (Clytostoma callistegioides); 

 and the large-flowered Solandra {Solandra grandiftora), 

 a native of tropical America. 



Houses Nos. 14 and 15. In these two houses are the 

 smaller specimens of the palm family and Panama-hat- 

 plant family, the larger plants being in house 1. On the 

 north bench in house 14 is a collection of plants of the 

 Panama-hat-plant family. 



Conservatory Court 



There are three attractive features here during the 

 open season, viz., the display of tulips in the spring, 

 followed by the collection of desert plants, and the water- 

 lily collection. The water-lilies may be found in two 

 pools, one in each end of the court. In the easterly 

 one are placed the hardy sorts, such as are able to with- 

 stand the severe cold of our winters, which remain per- 

 manently where they are, winter and summer. In the 

 westerly pool are the tender kinds, or such as require pro- 

 tection during the winter; many of these are stored in a 

 warm place during winter and placed on view again in the 

 spring. The most conspicuous of the tender sorts is the 

 royal water-lily from Paraguay; this is not hardy in 

 this climate, and, as it is too large to protect from the 

 cold, is grown anew from seed each year; the seeds are 

 sown in the propagating houses late in winter, and the 

 young plants placed on view late in the spring or in early 

 summer. 



In summer the collection of desert plants is in the beds 

 in front of the entrance to house No. 1, usually occupied 

 by tulips during the spring. The central bed contains 

 American desert plants only, 'made up largely of members 

 of the cactus, amaryllis, and dracaena families. The 

 bed para'leling this to the west contains a collection of 



