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produced numerous varieties of this esteemed fruit. The 

 tree is long-lived, and the wood of matured specimens 

 highly valued for many purposes. 



Pelargonium. — (Natural Order, Geraniace^e.") Pp. 

 29, 30, 39, 197. — A few kinds only of this extensive genus are 

 indigenous to Australia. The cultivated garden plants are 

 known as Geraniums, though materially different in botanical 

 points from that genus. Pelargoniums are divided into 

 several sub - genera. The well - known garden Scarlet 

 Geranium belongs to the Pelargoniums. Of the other sub- 

 divisions of the order Geraniacece, viz. Geraniums and 

 Erodiums, only two are indigenous here. 



Periwinkle. — VINCA. (Natural Order, Apocyne.e.) 

 P. 30. — A pretty, continuous - flowering little trailer, an 

 evergreen, and very hardy. Both Vincas major and minor 

 are natives of Britain. Vinca rosea, a greenhouse plant, 

 is a native of the tropics. It is a great favourite, being 

 aimost constantly in bloom. ' Old Maid ' is its common 

 name in the West Indies. Vinca major is found to survive 

 all other plants, when a garden has gone to ruin. In fact, 

 it is one of the most hardy of plants known. 



Phlox. — (Natural Order, Polemoniace^e.) P. 18. — A 

 tribe of herbaceous plants, annual or perennial, producing 

 very beautiful flowers of different colours, and largely culti- 

 vated. ' Texan Pride ' {Phlox Driimmondi) and ' Pride of 

 Columbia ' {Phlox speciosa) are two of the best known. 



Pimelea. — (Natural Order, Thymele^e.) Pp. 23, 205. — 

 A large genus of shrubs, undershrubs, or herbaceous plants, 

 confined to Australia and New Zealand. Of the Australian 

 species, nearly twenty are found in Victoria, many of them 

 producing beautiful flowers. In South Australia there are 



