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2. Plant cut off level with soil on 17th, put in water instantly; 
flagged same day; leaves turned yellow by 23rd. 
3. Plant cut off under water on 18th; older leaves turned yellow by 
20th ; flagged a little, and all leaves turned yellow by 25th. 
‘ Purple Acacia ’ (Venezuela). — Plant shaken out of soil on 17th, 
and roots plunged in boiling water; by 20th some of leaflets had 
turned brown ; on 21st the whole plant was flagging, and on 25th it 
was practically dead. 
Bixa Orellana. — Plant in pot : roots immersed in boiling water on 
1 6th; no signs of suffering on 20th; old leaves turned yellow by 
25th; plant in a hopeless state by 30th. 
Isotoma longiflora. — 1. Plant in pot : boiled on 16th; flagging by 
22nd ; turned yellow by 25th. 
2. All soil shaken off roots, roots plunged in boiling water; had 
flagged a little by 20th; leaves all turned black by 25th. 
Tephrosia Vogelii. — Plant in pot : roots immersed in boiling water 
on 16th; leaves flagging by 22nd; turned brown by 25th. 
Chrysanthemum indicum. — Plant in pot : roots immersed in boiling 
water on 16th ; plant flagging by 24th ; quite dead a fortnight later. 
P oinsettia pulcherrima. — Plant in pot: roots immersed in boiling 
water on 16th; plant flagging by 20th ; leaves all brown by 25th. 
Livistona sinensis. — Plant in pot : roots immersed in boiling water 
on 1 6th; leaves shrivelling by 22nd ; plant quite dead ten days later. 
W. WATSON, Royal Gardens, Kew. 
