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The flowers and gardens of Madeira (1909)

Du Cane, Florence, Du Cane, Ella · London, A. & C. Black · leaf 235

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g leaves, of a duU greyish-green, of a pecu-harly tough texture, and a good clump some fouror five feet high is very ornamental. Strelitziaaugusta, as its name implies, is of more majesticgrowth. It has large foliage, not .unlike a banana,and clumps attain to twelve or fifteen feet in height.The… … CHAPTER XII HISTORICAL SKETCH Though this volume does not profess to be in anysense a guide-book to the Island of Madeira, yet itseems as though even those visitors to the island,who may only w^ish to study its flora and sylva,will more fully appreciate their wanderings bylearning something of its…

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