SHADE ROCKERIES 
The shade rockeries were made by the simple expedient of cutting paths into the soil in natural forest, and lining 
them partly with sandstone and partly with coral. The mounds, so made, are allotted to different groups of plants^ 
but ferns and selaginellas extend throughout them. Aroids are chiefly grouped in the western end and Scitamineae in 
the eastern. The genus Musa is, of course, in the latter, the following species being cultivated : — Musa Ensete of 
Abyssinia ; M, rosea of gardens, its home unknown ; M, coccinea of Indo-China ; and M. textilis of Malaysia, this last 
affording Manila Hemp, The first dies after fruiting ; but the others propagate themselves, much as the sago palm 
does, by means of lateral shoots at the ground. When a banana has fruited, the false stem, through which the flowering 
stem’" has grown, dies slowly from the centre outwards, and the length of the period of dying enables the side shoots 
to establish themselves in a 
circle. 
GARCINIA NIGROLINEATA, 
showinji the breathing knuckles upon the roots. 
{Photo by R. E. HoUtum- 
In the Aroid section, the 
long aerial roots of certain 
species are seen with con- 
siderable effect. The shade 
of the rockeries enables 
Caryota Rumphii to be grown 
beautifully. Couroupita 
guianensiSj the Cannon Ball 
Tree, can be seen. Its flowers 
are very curious. It fruits 
on the trunk, but not freely. 
From the part devoted to 
the Scitamineac steps ascend 
to an arch covered with the 
beautiful and fragrant 
Camoensia maxima. This 
climber is said to be common 
in parts of Angola, It came 
into cultivation in 1873, 
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