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POPULAR GARDEN BOTANY. 



quire great heat, a cool part of the greenhouse is sufficiently 

 warm, and even the air of a room suits them very well, 

 where their elegant plumes of foliage, formed by the pin- 

 nated leaves, have a very pleasing effect ; they flowen in the 

 autumn or spring, and many of them have a delightful 

 scent. A. pensans is a climbing species, and very beautiful, 

 its long feathery foliage having an elegant effect; in its 

 native country, Madeira, it soon reaches the height of the 

 tallest tree, and there spreads in every direction ; its flowers 

 are sulphur-colour, intermixed with dark red. A. celastri- 

 folia is a very desirable species for the greenhouse, as its 

 flowers are so fragrant that they scent the whole house with 

 the odour of whitethorn ; these flowers are most abundant, 

 making the branches bow down with their weight, they are 

 in round heads formed of a few pale yellow flowers, the 

 stamens of each being innumerable. A. lefttoneura is a re- 

 markably pretty species from its graceful branches, which 

 in the flowering season are covered with deep orange-co- 

 loured heads of flowers ; the leaves, or phyllodia, as they 

 are called, are two or three inches long, filiform, wavy, and 

 rough on the surface. A. Jiispidissima has very numerous 

 balls of flowers of a rich yellow colour, forming a dense 

 head ; the leaves are small and pinnated. A considerable 



