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baceous plant, with bulbous root-stocks and yellow flowers ; 

 abundant round Melbourne and in other parts of the colony. 



Victorian Plum Wood. — PERSOONIA and NO- 

 TEL^EA. See chapter 'Australian Vegetation,' p. 82. 



Vine Disease. — OIDIUM. P. 59. — The celebrated 

 Oidium Tuckeri, which has worked such havoc in some of 

 our vineyards, is a form of this disease. Sulphur is used 

 to stay its ravages, but when it has obtained a firm hold the 

 vines have to be destroyed root and branch. 



Violet. — VIOLA. (Natural Order, Violarie^e.) Pp. 

 17, 30. 53, 197. — A genus of beautiful plants, widely 

 differing in some botanical points, but most of them 

 familiar to lovers of flowers. The Violet is a common 

 garden plant in the colonies. There are four species of 

 Viola found in Australia and Tasmania. Of these three are 

 indigenous to Victoria, and one is found only in Tasmania. 



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Walking-Stick Palm.— KENTIA (ARECA) MONO- 

 STACHYA. (Natural Order, Palm^e.) See chapter 

 * Australian Vegetation.' 



Wallflower. — CHEIRANTHUS. (Natural Order, 

 Crucifer^e.) Pp. 35, 39, 41, 46, 54, 63. — A very common 

 garden plant. Cultivation has produced double flowers of 

 various tints, having a sweet odour, particularly towards 

 the close of the day. 



Watercress.— NASTURTIUM-OFFICINALE. (Natural 

 Order, Crucifer.<e.) Pp. 54, 183. — This useful perennial 

 grows abundantly throughout the Australian colonies and 

 New Zealand. It is not only grateful to the palate, but very 

 wholesome and purifying to the blood. The Native Water- 



