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-far from correct. The rate of growth in this Me must, therefore, be 
astonishing. At Nice I saw a specimen the stem of which was 15 feet 
exposed situations and within a m yards of the. sea, this 
palm i is perfectly healthy. 
CYCADS. 
thrive on the Riviera, Mons. Dognin, whose eee 1 is t in 
beautiful and rare plants, and the most perfectly planned I have ever 
seen, arr a cads inst a large bank of stones, 
backed with large Magnolias, Persea, Cocos and tall massive Bamboos. 
All aed Nn are in nd health, their names being as follow :— 
C. siamensis ; à large stemmed specimen with a fine head of leaves. 
C. ieri healthy in abe 
Dioon edule. 
Encephalartos Altensteinii. 
9 horridus. 
) Lehmanni. 
v 
Macrozamia spiralis. 
Maclea - 
In nnes, there are also good healthy pea d 
E. Caffe r (E. longi) and in Mr. Han nbury’s garden at Mento 
there is a fine e . horridus, var., which bore three fine cites 
at the time of ney met Ds edule, on the lawns at Monte Carlo, was 
in fine health, but Cycas revoluta was unhappy. 
Bamsoos. 
After the Palms, the most tropical feature in the gardening of the 
Riviera is the Bamboos, which are largely used in the composition of 
bli ivate. n di 
is 35 feet high. It contains hundreds of stems or canes, each 3 inches 
in diameter, and straight and smooth as a gun barrel, It is planted on 
one side of the lawn near the house. As fences, screens, and bounda: 
ch they h en 
sion of the ground, it was evident that their requirements are abun- 
med satisfied. m finest and healthiest examples are in wet ground, 
often on the e of water. Most of them are heavily manured 
annu 
family of plants, many of which be grown out of doors p peram 
in all the milder parts of the country, whilst in large conservatories, 
where they would get protection from cold in winter, a still greater 
number would be found to thrive. That they are much superior to 
