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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOQIST, 
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masses of its white blossoms, which last for a considerable period. This florifer- 
ous habit, as well as the neat character of the foliage, are well shown in the 
accompanying figure from Messrs. Veitch’s Catalogue. 
Dr. Hooker, in his Handbook of the New Zealand Flora^ describes this 
Olearia as a small shrubby tree, with ovate or oblong or linear-oblong very 
coriaceous loaves, which are green and shining above, smooth beneath, and there 
