Those interested in cut flowers may profit by the following hints regarding a pretty plant from the Cape of Good Hope, which we find in the London Gardening World:

"A very pretty evergreen shrub, the Diosma alba of Linnaeus, is used at the Cape in bouquets, intermingled among the flowers, in the same way as small subdivisions of Adiantum are commonly employed. The ladies say it is ' everlasting wear,' and survives a long series of dances better than Adiantum. Grown in gardens, it assumes a luxuriant habit, and forms long, slender sprays of delicate green, and it is the young growth that is selected by the bouquetist. The scent, unlike most Diosmeae, is pleasant, and the foliage outlasts tenfold the quickly withering Fern fronds it replaces. The plant is raised without difficulty from seed, which, however, is rarely to be found in commerce. All the Diosmeae have a peculiar trick of everting the inner layer of the capsule with a jerk when the seed is ripe, and this makes the gathering of seed very slow and unremunerative".