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the very tallest growers, and the best way is to begin with small plants, rooted 
cuttings, in fact, which can then be trained as required. B. fuchsioides, B. 
hyhrida multijiora^ B. insigms, B. Baviesit, B. foliosa, B. Dregei^ B. Satindersii, 
B, Sedeni^ and its numerous sub-varieties, are all good, while, as above mentioned, 
all the ornamental-leaved varieties look better in baskets than elsewhere. 
It is but right to add that the above remarks have been suggested by the 
specimens now to be seen in the Begonia-house at Kew.—F. W. Bubbidge. 
CUPRESSUS MACNABIANA. 
have in this conifer a densely-branched evergreen shrub, of pyramidal 
outline, and one which, coming from an elevation of 5,000 ft. on the 
Shasta mountains in the north of California, is perfectly hardy. It is 
of compact habit, growing from 6 ft. to 10 ft. in height, with brownish- 
red bark, and short mostly opposite branches, curving upwards at the points, and 
thickly set with short dense somewhat tetragonal branchlets, which bear in 
opposite pairs, distant glaucous spreading leaves, decurrent at the base, 
keeled, and tapered to a sharp point in the young plants, but blunter, shorter,* 
and loosely imbricated in adults ; there is a hollow gland on the outer or under- 
