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Cacti as ornamental plants should see them as they appear on the 
Riviera. 
" Agaves are equally grand. ‘To see them fully developed, their huge 
leaves spreading in all directions and forming a gigantic rosette as 
1 as a house, whilst from the centre rises a mast-like flower-spike, 
30 feet high, and crowded with flowers, gives a very different impieps 
thi h be : 
smaller plants being lifted and sent to Paris, &c.— and for effect in 
outdoor garden 
AGAVES. 
Commencing with the — the SE were the most note- 
worthy of those seen in the various gardens in 
. americana.—Frequent as eim groups in podia 5 naturalised in 
many place 
A. dyansiuinis, Hort. Hanbury.—A very fine mar as large as A. 
Salmiana, with glaucous leaves, It is probably ne 
A. scens, Hook.—Very healthy at Cannes. "etin well grown 
this is a handsome Agave. Its leaves are very soft and succulent, and 
are easily dam 
A, Ixtli, Ka v rigida, Mill).—Large specimens at Cannes and 
Mentone, the aes about 5 feet long ; they are, therefore, the variety 
ed A. elongata, Jacobi. 
A, Jacobiana, Salmdyck.—A. handsome broad-leaved plant, in Mr. 
A. potatorum, Zucc,—Some grand pete at Cannes, almost double 
the size given in Mr. Baker's description 
A. Rumphii, epee dus. Baker refers dus to A. eai idt but the 
eM under un former name in Mr. bury's garden looks like a 
; Dt —In the gardens at Villa Thuret there is a 
magnifi seat a specimen of this fully 10 feet higa and wide. At Mentone 
it was in flower, the spike 30 feet high anda foot in diameter at the 
base. A variety called latifolia, also at Mentone, had a flower-spike 
several feet higher and thicker, The pair formed a magnificent 
d final spike. A plant of A. Salmiana, var. variegata, 
bore several of these lateral, almost basal, spikes at the time of my 
visit. 
- A. Scolymus, Karw.—Flowering at Mentone, the spike 25 feet 
high. 
A. spectabilis, Tod.—Two plants met with under the name of 
A. applanata probably belong to this species. There were nd speci 
mens with leaves 5 feet long, very glaucous, with a large dark brown 
terminal spine. The species flowered for the first time at Palermo in 
1879 and was — by M Todaro. The leaves of A. applanata 
seldom exceed a foo sth 
i A, vivipa ari sie: Gl. Cantu la).—A miei aui more resembling 
a Furcrea. It has Jately flowered at Men 
