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SELECTION OF CHOICE GREENHOUSE SHRUBS. 
With Yellow Flowers. 
Acacia argyrophylla is a tall growing species, with beautiful foliage and large 
heads of deep yellow flowers, which are produced in the spring months. 
Acacia celastrifolia is also very graceful, and the flowers diffuse a most 
delicious fragrance. 
Acacia cultriformis flowers during the early spring months ; should have a 
liberal supply of water, when flowering. 
Acacia leptoneura is another very graceful plant, producing in spring a vast 
profusion of orange-yellow flowers. 
Acacia longifolta is a robust-growing kind of considerable beauty. 
Acacia oncinophylla is so profuse a bloomer, that its branches appear one 
mass of flowers, being far more numerous than the leaves. 
Acacia rotundifolia, although an old is a very handsome kind. All the above 
being Australian plants, require an airy situation in the greenhouse. The best soil 
for them is two-thirds sandy loam, and one part turfy peat, with plenty of potsherds 
for drainage. Its cuttings strike freely in pots of sand placed in a little heat 
under a handglass. — Mag. Bot., v. xv., t. 124. 
Aotus gracillima — A very elegant Australian plant with rich orange flowers, 
which are produced in great profusion ; give the same treatment as to Acacias. 
Oestrum aurantiacum has very fragrant orange flowers which are abundantly 
produced ; the plant is deciduous. 
Dillwynia clavata has a habit stronger, and less disposed to form branches, 
than most of the other species of the genus, and on that account requires to be 
freely pruned to render it dwarf and bushy. A mixture of two parts turfy peat, 
one part light loam, and one part leaf mould ; it is the better for being in lumps, 
and not broken too fine. 
Eucalyptus Preisiana forms a handsome tree-like shrub, with foliage as 
fragrant as a myrtle, and is well worthy of a place in a selection. 
Gastrolobium spinosum and villosum are both hardy greenhouse kinds, and 
appear to be benefited by being placed out of doors during the summer ; but the 
situation must be a sheltered one where the mid-day sun or winds have not full 
power upon them. 
Gompholobium barbige rum is one of the finest kinds of this genus ; the 
flowers are a fine gamboge yellow, and the plant forms a broad-spreading bush. 
Gompholobium Hendersoni forms a dwarf shrub, with a stiff but compact 
habit, and of slow growth. Its flowers are a deep orange and produce abundantly. 
Rhododendron Javanicum and R. Javanicum aureum, are two of the most 
magnificent greenhouse shrubs which have been brought into this country for many 
years. They require the same treatment as R. arboreum and its varieties. 
