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admired, but it has never shown any signs of flowering. I have seen 
it flowering at Perademya in Ceylon and fruiting on Mount Matang 
in Borneo at a height of about 1,000 feet. s 
Am *™ an Plants few thrive here if one excepts some 
of tlje Southern States. Sun-flowers, Helianthus annuus, Artichokes 
II. Tuberosus and other of these composites do well. Sun-flowers 
can be carried on through three or four generations. Artichokes 
_ower though the plants do not develop as tall as they do in England 
They produce abundance of tubers. The cultivated Zinnia! and 
Th? e r S lv rad “ a 7 d , et 5 norate and cease to fruit after a few years 
The Californian and Floridan palms will not stand the climate but 
Zamia pumzi a grows and flowers well in pots. 
P la n ts -— The plants of the West Indies grow 
the l ot lot We ’ ? without exception. The Mexican plants of 
AmeriJai nb,n t read, ‘ y grown ’ aS are the TropicM South 
N™Masdevin"l Wlt 5 ‘ he exceptions of plants from high altitudes. 
r=»r u e S orSobralla s, and hardly any Odontoglossums or 
Jffe Cattlevas” *° ^ Miltonias g 0 SLs 
V J Lattle y a s Stanhopeas, Catasetum, have been grown with 
can be grown. Fr ° m t6mperate and subtr °Pic South America little 
Verbenas can be grown fairly well, but do not fruit 
sas 
S S2K, “Z 1 ; gj* .•I-' 
aboul three inches tell produced a doner but ■.hen^XplndCd 6 
and 
leaves, anl.* lei flowSefeand 7 h re de ^™ d 
undoubtedly to the verv wet climtl • st T Ieof growth is due 
the rain falling on Sit nX v aT- ° f C ° UrSe caused b T 
as that could be obviated by graw^np°Zrie 7 5 "| g satur j ted mere| y. 
the water, but simply from thf h-.mlH;t d f rt. g aS - S| and restrIct,n g 
of herbaceous or hafl-wotdv t-? U p m ' dlty ° f j he a,r - Man T plants 
attacks of fungi durinVhe t et t CtUre ™ dlrectl T b Y the 
in the ground but also m no*s a ’ not onl ^ Panted out 
kind appears sporadically fn DectmS? 'and 7 IS? XI0U ? fUngUS ° f this 
the form of a mass of nfy .elium cove ed with in 
orange or white scleroma • v W smaJ1 globose* 
vegetable matter such as a rottimfletf ° n d u eca y in ^ 
and is fatal in a few days. A olant^ If teethe plant a t the colkr 
y A P Jant of Lmeiia mcotiancefolia . , 
