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PAXTON'S FLOWER GAEDEN. 



substance to give it poignancy ; and wine, sugar, lime-juice, but mostly pepper and salt, are used. However excellent 

 when ripe, the Avocado is very dangerous if pulled and eaten before maturity, being known to produce fever 

 and dysentery. 'If you take the stone of the seed,' says Barham, 'and write upon a white wall, the letters 

 will turn as red as blood, and never go out till the wall is whitewashed again, and then with difficulty.' "—Botanical 

 Magazine, t. 4580. 



Bp.owallia Jamiesoni. Bentliam. 



A handsome greenhouse shrub, with orange-yellow 

 flowers, belonging to Linariads. Native 

 o£ Peru. Blossoms in the autumn. 

 Introduced by Messrs. Veitch and Co. 

 (Fig. 151.) 



This very pretty shrub inhabits various parts 

 of the kingdom of New Granada, near Loxa, &c. 

 It forms a neat dark-leaved bush, with stalked, 

 oblong, wrinkled leaves, and solitary, axillary, 

 orange-yellow flowers, which, when the plant is 

 very healthy, are collected into small terminal 

 corymbs. 



Acacia verticillata. Willdenow. 

 A loose, straggling, prickly, greenhouse 

 shrub. Native of Van Diemeir's Land. 

 Flowers, light yellow, in March and 

 April. (Fig. 152.) 



How this differs from A. oxycedrus wili be 

 obvious upon comparing the present cut with that 

 at page 57 of our last number. It is found Jin the 

 same country, abounding all over the island, where 

 it assumes many forms ; sometimes having broad 

 leaves, and a stout almost erect habit, sometimes 

 having almost awl-shaped leaves, and not possessing 

 stiffness enough to support itself. It bears long, 

 narrow, blunt, curved pods. A. Riceana, figured 

 at page 56, approaches it more nearly than any- 

 thing else ; but that has a much more graceful 

 habit, and its paler flowers are so disposed that 

 each may be seen separately upon the long drooping 

 spikes, while here, on the contrary, even when old 

 as in our figure, they always have a comparatively 

 compact arrangement, and when young are col- 

 lected into close oblong spikes. 



EUONYMUS EIMBRTATUS. Wallicli . 



A beautiful evergreen greenhouse bush, 



Flowers green . 



from the Himalaya. 

 Belongs to the order of Spindle trees 

 (Celastracea). (Fig. 153.) 



Although sometimes fine flowers are more 

 looked for than beautiful foliage, yet in the present 

 case the very handsome appearance of the plant 

 now figured ought to satisfy even the most 

 fastidious. We can scarcely do better than 

 transcribe Dr. Wallich's description of it : — 

 "Specimens of this beautiful species were communicated from the Servalik mountains, by Dr. Goran ; and from 

 Shreenugur, by Kamroop. Probably a tree. Branches round, slender, gray ; while young alternately compressed • all 



