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catching hold of the branches of any tree that it may be 

 near, and thus elevating the plant from the earth. 



In this country it can only be cultivated in the stove, 

 where it forms a bush of a few feet in height, and where 

 its hooks are not produced ; they appear only in its native 

 woods, where it is more vigorous, and where alone it has 

 occasion for them. It strikes freely from cuttings. 



For the opportunity of figuring it we 



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ndebted 



her Grace the Duchess of Buccleugh, from one of whose 

 drawings the accompanying Plate has been engraved : it 

 represents this plant in all its glory, as when it flowered at 

 Dalkeith for six weeks in succession, in December 1832, 

 producing, as we learn from Dr. Graham, in the course of 

 that time not fewer than one hundred splendid clusters. 



J. L. 







