250 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. {1 Mar., 1900. 
Asparagus racemosus, green, close growing, covers a fence in a shady placti 
Beaumontia grandiflora, splendid white flower, grand for a fence, will groW A 
50 feet high; Bignonia capensis, good for a fence; Bignonia venusta, lov 
creeper, will cover the roof of an ugly shed better than anything ; Bougany 7 
glabra, B. spectabilis, and B. splendens, are magnificent climbers which 8 
clothe the ugliest fence with beauty ; Buddleia madagascariensis, a large We 
plant good to plant over objectionable stumps, &c.; Clerodendron Thomps? 
rather delicate flowers, favourites for button-holes, &e¢.; Lonicera capt! 
you should have the above. 
The mean shade temperature for March is 73 degrees, 8 degrees below i 
maximum mean and 15 degrees above the minimum mean. 
The mean rainfall for thirty-eight years has been 6 56 inches. A 
The total rainfall in 1898 was 13°87 inches, and in March, 1970, a8 2 
as 84:04 inches fell. 
The temperature is cooling off. Next month the mean will be 70 deg? 
last month it was 75 degrees. 
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