are the two best, but a dozen or more good species may be found.
GREVILLEA ALPESTRlS.
Habrothamnus.—Owing to their robust habit, these are best adapted for training to pillars in large houses, but with care bush specimens may be produced. When grown as pot specimens it will be necessary to first form a foundation by stopping the young shoots once during the first year or two, and afterwards to prune early in the spring all the shoots back to within one or two buds of the base. They must be kept rather dry at the root when pruned, and as soon as they are fairly started into growth again turn them out of the pots, and after removing a portion of the old soil repot them in clean pots and a fresh compost. They will grow freely either in peat or loam, but the best compost for them is a mixture
