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NEW GARDEN PLANTS 
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Fitz-Eoya patagonica, J. D. Hooker. Patagonian Fitz-Eoya.—Order Pinaceae (Conifer tribe).—This is a 
fine hardy evergreen sub-antarctic tree, forming, when young, a graceful evergreen shrub, but growing to a mag¬ 
nificent size (100 feet high, and eight feet diameter) in its native regions. The leaves of young plants are spread- 
1. SAXK-GOTU^A CONSPICUA. 
2. FITZ-ROYA PATAGONICA. 
3. ARAUCARIA COOKII. 
ing linear acute, decussate, with two glaucous lines on the under side. When they become older, the leaves have 
the character of triangular sessile closely imbricated scales. It is from the Andes of Patagonia, and was intro¬ 
duced in 1849, by Messrs. Yeitch, of Exeter. Dr. Lindley remarks, that “ Saxe-Gotluea conspicua , Fitz-Iioya 
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