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p. 124 and 127 ; and for vases, nothing looks better than the Fuchsias. 
F. globosa is the hardiest and most abundant flowerer of the whole genus ; 
and some splendid hybrids have been raised between F. globosa and F. 
fulgens. The different kinds of Petunia also look well in vases if care¬ 
fully trained, by pegging down; and the showy annuals, Phlox Drum- 
mondi (pink), and Clintonia pulchella (blue), are also good vase flowers. 
Among the other plants suitable for vases are the dwarf roses, and 
stocks or wall-flowers; all of which look very well if nicely kept. 
The best soil for the cypress and every other evergreen is sandy loam. 
In answer to the many inquiries I have received respecting the 
Daubentonia , I may say, that I understand the price is two hundred francs 
(about eight pounds English) for a flowering plant; but that M. Le Blanc 
does not intend to sell any one plant till he has obtained the names of 
twenty persons who will take plants at that price. As I am told his 
list is nearly full, I hope that some of these beautiful plants may be in 
England in time to grace the July Horticultural exhibition at Chiswick. 
EXTRACTS FROM BOOKS. 
THE PHILIPPINE ISLES. 
The beautiful woods which clothe the mountains and valleys of these 
islands with the most luxuriant green, descend also to the brink of the sea, 
in groves of Mangle trees (Rhizophora), and some other species. The 
transitory glance w T hich we are enabled to give of these forests from the 
public route, and the short distance we penetrated their recesses, are in¬ 
sufficient to enable us to describe them properly. Fig trees appear to be 
the prevailing kind of wood; some species supporting themselves as 
strong trees by their singularly interwoven stems and running roots, by 
which they clasp the rocks and twine over them. Other plants, of very 
tender stalks, raise themselves to an astonishing height, and while their 
leafy summits are lost above the leafy roof of the grove, their singular 
fruit is seen bursting from the lower part of their trunks. 
Some species retain a frutescent habit, while others climb. We missed 
in the woods the beautiful forms of the Acacia trees, with their variously 
pinnated leaves; but numerous other genera of leguminous plants here ex¬ 
hibit their peculiar characteristics. The Ferns (particularly the arborescent 
ones), the Climbers, the Orchideae, which in Brazil form almost self-sup¬ 
ported gardens in the air, slightly attached to the summits of the trees, are 
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