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Manettia bicolor, 
Olea fragrans. 
PuNICA GRANATUM. 
Plumbago capensis . . A lovely plant, with pale azure blue flowers. 
Passiflora mayana 
c^RULEA . . 1 These produce abundance of bloom, and the latter of 
racemosa I also. 
ALATA . . 
PoLYGALA GRAND IF LORA . . This is a pretty old greenhouse plant, and has attained a 
size, with plenty of flowers. 
ScHINUS MOLLE. 
SWAINSONA CORONILL^FOLIA. 
SiPHOCAMPYLLUS BICOLOR. 
Rhodochiton volubile . . A fine climber — flowers abundantly all summer. 
Camellia Japonica . . In variety. 
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LIST OF PLANTS RECOMMENDED, IN ADDITION, FOR CONSERVATIVE WALLS 
Lagerstrcemia indica. 
Ceratonia siliqua, 
Buddleya Lindleyana. 
Tacsonia pinnatistipula. 
MOLLISSIMA. 
Mimosa prostrata. 
Acacia longissima. 
CULTRIFORMTS. 
■ DEALBATA. 
JUNIPERINA. 
ARMATA. 
LUNATA. 
MUCRONATA. 
Brugmansia SUAVEOLENS. 
Bignonia grandiflora. 
TWEEDIANA. 
Polygala cordifolia. 
Correa Harrisii. 
Lindleyana. 
PULCHELLA. 
BICOLOR. 
SOLLYA LINIARIS. 
• HETEROPHYLLA. 
Eutaxia myrtifolta. 
Brachysema hybridum. 
Kennedya ovata. 
longiracemosa. 
LILACINA. 
MaRIANTHUS CiERULEO-PUNCTATUS 
BoSSIiEA LINIFOLIA. 
SCOLOPENDRIUM. 
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Rapid as the advance of late years has been in the knowledge and appreciate 
of scientific principles in the culture of flowers, there is still a seeming reluctanc^; 
in a great many instances, to enforce their application. And perhaps this is in ' 
great measure attributable to the comprehensive nature of the considerations thsll 
are involved in the application of theoretical systems to attain practical ends wit' 
any degree of certainty and benefit. Ignorance of the nature of particular specie 
or classes of plants, and of the varying character of the conditions in which the; 
are respectively met with in a wild state, present a formidable barrier to those wh 
have had little practical experience or opportunity for observation. All firs 
principles are necessarily too general, and the peculiarities of plants too diversific 
