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point in cultivating it is thorough drainage ; if 
there is any moisture hanging about, the base of 
the fronds will decay, and gradually fall off, and a 
tiny wireworm will come to help in the work of 
destruction. When the least decay is visible in 
the fronds, dig up the plant, and look to the 
drainage. 
At Dunkeld I found quantities of very fine 
Euta muraria growing in the old wall of the Duke 
of Atholl's park. I managed to pick out a great 
many roots with considerable portions of earth 
attached ; but, alas ! I have never made Euta 
muraria live for more than two years in cultivation. 
I have tried it with old mortar, planting it upside 
and downside, and every way, but all to no 
purpose ; I am now trying it in a flower-plot 
nearly filled with drainage, placing the flower- 
pot sideways in, the Fernery, and covering it with 
earth. 
The Duke of Atholl's grounds are strictly pre- 
served, and I have a strong aversion to going over 
houses and grounds with a bought permission, so 
