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palms called Deckerias which are synonymous with the American Iriarteas. It 
requires stove treatment.—T. M. 
MC. SMITH 
DECKENtA NOBILIS. 
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0 those of your readers who have waste pieces of land, or muddy accumu¬ 
lations on the margins of their lakes, which they may wish to improve, I 
would strongly recommend this charming plant. If planted in such 
positions for the sake of its foliage alone, it will be found infinitely pre¬ 
ferable to the plants or rank weeds which usually occupy such situations ; but 
when in the autumn it throws up its brilliant spikes of orange-scarlet torch-like 
blossoms six or eight feet high, the effect produced by a mass of colour, and the 
reflection of the same in the water, is extremely charming, not unlike those 
exquisite pictures we sometimes see of the banks of the Nile and the Jordan. 
