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PANDANUS VEITCHII. 
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exposure, free from shading of any kind, is essential to ensure a perfect colouring 
of the highest order. 
Be it remembered that, on the dinner-table, a few small plants of graceful 
habit, nicely arranged, will give more thorough satisfaction than the unmeaning 
masses that are often jumbled together.—G. Westland, Withy Court Gardens. 
PANDANUS VEITCHII. 
A>jN the genus of Screw Pines, which botanists call Pandanus, are included 
vju many species of remarkably ornamental aspect. They have, as the name 
<tpS) imports, a general resemblance to the Pine-apple, but vary considerably 
Y amongst themselves as to size, colour, breadth of foliage, &c. The plant, 
