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crowded cluster of short leafy branches. when old, the stem is bright 
yellow. Itisa i vir landi Bam 
B. wiolescens — A. utiful Chine se ARROS, which was 
introduced into e xiii wet, in 1870,i the branch. of 
which at Hyéres a fine clump was noted. The stems are 10 feet high, 
yellow ground. The leaves are glaucous on the under side. Young 
plants of it are in the Kew collection. 
B. viridi-glaucescens, Hort.—One of the handsomest of cultivated 
Bamboos. It is mid har ardy in England, and in France it is one of 
the common It grows very rapidly, has handsome foliage, trans- 
, and is a first-rate pot, plant.. It is frequently used in 
ture. 
B. vulgaris, Wendl. (B. Thouarsii). — Some astonishingly large 
healthy specimens of this well-known species were met with. Apparently 
e tropi r ts. và 
asuring 40 feet through, and the canes 35 feet high. The plant in 
the Palm House at Kew must be 30 years old; it has not yet flowered, 
p, 
AGAVES AND OTHER SUCCULENT PLANTS. 
The excessive heat and drought of the sumen alternating with the 
moisture and mildness of the winter on the Riviera, afford exactly those 
conditions which are especially favourable to t the e majority of succulent 
cames South Africa, Mexico, and the most southern of the States of 
h America are the homes of the greater portion of these planis; and 
is nature of the seasons there is very similar to what we meet with on 
the Riviera, Consequently we find such plants as Agave, Aloe, Furcrea, 
Fa horneria, Dasylirion, Opuntia, and other kinds of Cacti, 
ed with infinitely less trouble and expense than that of Palms, 
for instance, so many of which un to be frequently and heavily 
watered during the hot dry summer months. Agaves and Opuntias 
ap’ to have run wild in some parts, whilst those in gardens, where 
— receive a tte [voa attain enn marvellous pr oportig ns, a sre 
y magnifice Opuntias are employed in 
of the beautiful me nag x "Villa Vue with the most Sinis vem 
0. maxima, a huge specimen, 18 feet through and 12 feet high, roe 
a lawn of rich green, and had as a kind of frame work the deep green 
plumes of Cocos plumosa and elegant bamboos a armata argentea, 
here and also in Mr. Hanbury's garden at Mentone, is a cylindrical 
ed species, and ferms a mass 6 feet through e a foot high, ihe 
stems. so thickly covered with spines as to be completely hidden. And ` 
these spines, which are fully 2 inches long, are each enclosed ge à ; sheath 
. of the purest white. Lying on the top ofa mass of stones, the 
produced by this plant is delightful. Those who have learnt to despise 
