284 EEFORM IN THE CONSERVATOEY. 



out of doors in this country may he 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. 



Blechnum brasiliense. 



Nothing even among Palms can surpass the eJBPective 

 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, 



