DECEMBER. 
371 
The fine weather of the present season has been highly favourable to 
the development of this magnificent Grass, and has fully established its 
popularity, about which there cannot now be a question. We have 
received from several of our correspondents dimensions of plants under 
their care, varying from 12 to 14 feet high, and 10 to 18 feet in diameter, 
with from a score to fifty heads of flowers. The absence of any 
autumnal frosts, hitherto, has contributed also to preserve the flower- 
spikes in a state of almost pristine freshness, for we have remarked 
