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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
localities. Readers of the Tloeal World who enjoy the blessing 
of a kind climate, would confer on us a great favour if they would 
look round and make lists of plants they find thriving in open gar- 
dens, selecting such as are not usually met with in places less 
favourable to vegetation. 
But some of our friends will ask us to name a few subjects, 
to serve as a guide to them, that they may take note of really 
interesting subjects. Now, we shotdd be particularly interested to 
know where thriving open-air examples of the following are to be 
found : — Abutilon vitifolmm, Aralia Sieboldi, Berheris J^epalensis, 
CoUetia Jiorrida, or any other Colletia, Desfontania spinosa, Escal- 
lonia rubra, and any other Escallonia, Bmboihrium coccineum, Gre- 
r 'lllea rosmarlnifolia, and any other Grevilleas, GrisUnia littoralis, 
which should not only live, but hear berries. Ilex latifolia, and I. 
balearica, Fittosporum crassifolium, and any other Pittosporum, Vero- 
nica Andersoni, Daphne Indica. This is of course only a skeleton, or 
rather a suggestivelist, capable of indefinite enlargement, as ourfriends 
may see fit to contribute information on the subject. Such plants as 
agaves, yuccas, and pujas deserve to be noted, for they are not every- 
where hardy, and certain kinds, as, for example, the variegated forms 
of Yucca aloifolia and the variegated form of Agave Americana, are of 
the utmost value in the embellishment of the garden. Does the helio- 
trope exist anywhere in Britain as an established open-air shrub ? 
We should not be surprised to hear that in some such spot as 
Torquay an old heliotrope might be found clothing a warm wall, and 
making the summer air rich with its fragrance. 
We have selected to illustrate these remarks a very fine tree for 
a kind climate. This pittosporum is a robust habited shrub, with 
thick dark-green leaves and showy red flowers. In the Scilly Isles 
it would, no doubt, thrive “ like a weed ! ” It reminds us of 
the very desirable species of the same genus, namely, P. tobira and 
B. undulatum, which produce delightfully scented flowers, and are so 
nearly hardy that they would need no aid of glass in a genial nook 
of the south-west. S. H. 
OX GRAFTING AND BUDDING. 
BY A. MURRAY, ESQ., F.L.S., 
And Member of the Scientific Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society. 
|HE changes which have taken place at Chiswick afibrded 
so favourable an opportunity of procuring specimens 
and sections of the grafted portions of fruit-trees of 
different kinds, that it seemed to me desirable to use 
the opportunity to make up for the Horticultural So- 
ciety a case of specimens illustrative of grafting, which might be 
placed alongside of the cases of Economic Entomology for similar 
purposes of instruction. 
I have been the more induced to do so from the circumstance 
that Mr. Barron, our able superintendent, informs me that he finds 
