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THE GREEN-HOUSE. 



species of a genus together, thinking this more use- 

 ful than scattering them through different months. 



January, February, and March. 



Acacia verticiUata, B. M. 110. 



A, juniperina. 



A. Umfdlia, A. R. 394. 



A. stricta, A. R. 53. 



A. hngifoUa, A. R. 204. 



These are very hardy and most ornamental plants. 

 They are evergreens with long narrow singular 

 leaves, and are profusely covered with yellow flowers 

 for two or three months together. They grow in 

 sandy loam, with a little peat or leaf-mould inter- 

 mixed, and are increased by cuttings taken off in the 

 young wood, and planted in sand covered with a bell- 

 glass and plunged in a gentle heat. 

 Salvia dentata, finely variegated flowers which come 

 out in December and last till February. The plant 

 grows in any soil and strikes readily by cuttings. 

 Daphne odora, purple flowers on a neat bushy ever- 

 green shrub which grows in peat soil, and is pro- 

 pagated by grafting on the common Daphne of the 

 woods. 



Protea mellifera and pendula, most elegant ever- 

 greens with fine glistening silvery leaves ; flowers 

 in spikes, but not very remarkable. They grow 

 in loam and peat, and are increased, but not very 

 readily, by cuttings. 



