16 NATIVE FLOWERS OF VICTORIA. 
back so as to allow the young growth to harden 
before the frosts come, the plant can be brought by 
cutting into any limit that the operator desires; and 
yet few people are aware that in its natural home 
this plant is a tree often over sixty feet in height. On 
the banks of the Snowy River in Victoria, and in 
parts of the adjacent jungles, I have seen magnifi- 
cent specimens of this tree, and when in full flower 
the scent was so strong as to be almost overpowering. 
Then there is the sugar-gum. Eucalyptus corynocalyx, 
a tree which runs up to one hundred and twenty feet 
in its wild state; it is rare that anyone has ever seen 
a garden hedge made of this tree. In a garden in 
Upper Beaconsfield, there was a beautiful sugar-gum 
hedge nine years old and about four feet high, always 
kept well trimmed and cut, and as ornamental as any 
Pittosporum or Privet hedge. 
Of climbing plants, the species of Clematis, Celas- 
trus, and Hardenbergia are useful. We are familiar 
with the latter under the name of sarsaparilla, which 
is so fine in the bush in springtime. It is also a 
plant that improves considerably under cultivation, 
climbing gloriously up the side of a house or on a 
fence, covering many feet — a mass of wonderful 
purple. The Passion Flower of the Snowy River, 
Passiflora cinnabarina, is also a quick climber, with 
dark green foliage and beautiful scarlet flowers. 
Of ornamental flowering shrubs, the name and 
variety are legion, and one only has to spend a few 
hours at different seasons of the year in the Mel- 
bourne Botanic Gardens to note the great variety of 
choice the gardener has. Incidentally it may be 
