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UEFORM IN THE CONSERVATORY. 



out of doors in this country may be obtained under glass 

 without difficulty. The temperature of conservatories gene- 

 rally is sufficient to develope as noble a type of vegetation 

 as the hottest stove^ so objectionable from its heat and 

 moisture. The grandest of all the Banana tribe (Musa 

 Ensete) thrives healthfully in a cool house^ while the Pal- 

 metto Palm of the Southern States of America^ the Fan 

 Palm of Europe^ Chamserops excelsa^ and the graceful 

 Seaforthia elegans^ and many other Palms^ do the same. 



Fig. 122. 



Blechnuni brasiliense. 



Nothing even among Palms can surpass the eflPective 

 grace of such Dracaenas as lineata,, Rumphi, umbraculifera^ 

 Draco (before it gets very old and branched), brasiliensis,, 

 cannsefolia,, and australis ; and they all grow well in the cool 

 and agreeable temperature of the conservatory. Numerous 

 Eerns_, from those great Dicksonias which at the Antipodes 

 rival or surpass the Palms in grace, to the Woodwardias, 



