either grown in a pot, and supported by neat rods or a wire 
trellis fixed to the pot; or planted out in a border against a 
back wall or pillar. A mixture of light loam and peat will suit 
it. The usual precautions must be taken that the soil does not 
become stagnant by over-watering,—a rule to be carefully ob- 
served with plants generally, especially those with fine fibrous 
roots, when cultivated m large pots. Great mischief results 
from injudicious watering ;—not so much from giving too great 
a quantity of water when a plant really needs it, as from the 
common practice of watering often, and giving a little each time. 
The consequence is, that either the lower roots receive no water, 
or the soil becomes a stagnant wet mass, which, even if no more 
water is given, will take a long time to come to the proper 
degree of dryness; in the meantime the roots suffer, as is 
shown, when too late, by the unhealthy appearance ‘of the 
plant. J. 8. 
Fig. 1. Pistil and stamen :—magnified. 
