A GARDEN FLORA 
ACA2NA. New Zealand Burr. Rosaceae. 
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A. Buchanani. New Zealand. 
A. microphylla. New Zealand. 
A. pulchella. New Holland. 
ACANTHOLIMON. Plumbaginaceae. 
A. glumaceum. Prickly Thrift. Asia Minor. 
A. venustum. Asia Minor. 
This little rock plant is more difficult to grow than 
the better known species A. glumaceum. It is, 
however, more beautiful ; the flowers being larger 
and of a better pink, and the foliage silver, rather 
than green. Here it thrives in the sandy soil of 
the Rock Garden. We divide the single root stem 
into four quarters, and then plant it, with pieces 
of sandstone, set below the level of the soil, wedged 
tightly against its roots. 
ACANTHOPANAX. Araliacess. 
A. ricinifolium. Japan. 
Syn. Aralia Maximowiczii. 
A. senticosum. China. 
Syn. Eleutherococcus senticosus. 
A hardy shrub from China, with stems thickly 
surrounded by small thorns. 
A. sessiliflorum. China. 
A. Simoni. China. 
Syn. Eleutherococcus Simoni. 
A more graceful and compact shrub than A. 
senticosum, with smaller leaves, of a grey tone. 
The flowers are like an aralia, and are followed by 
black berries. The branches have large thorns like 
a rose. 
A. spinosum. Japan. 
Syn. Aralia pentapkylla. 
ACANTHUS. Bear’s Breech, Bear’s Foot. Acanthacese. 
|A. arborescens. Central Africa. 
Sent from La Mortola, and propagated by layers. 
The original plant lived for five years in the Shrub 
House and, when about 10 feet high, was planted 
