216 THE FLOEAL WORLD AND GAEDEN GUIDE. 



as one great grower of Dipladenias used to train them to the rafters 

 of his stove till six weeks before exhibition time, and then take 

 them down and train on to the trellises on which they were shown, 

 there is nothing to prevent them being seen in the most natural 

 position, for Dipladenias are the best of climbers. 



Passifloea peinceps is the most useful and beautiful of that 

 ravishing genus, and with good reason. Instead of flowering thinly 

 in the axils of the leaves, it furnishes racemes of brilliantly coloured 

 flowers and buds, all flowering freely, and makes when well grown 

 one of the most beautiful objects ever seen in the stove. Planted 

 out under the front bench, and trained in wreaths from one rafter to 

 another — the racemes of flowers being allowed to hang down natu- 

 rally between the front walk and the glass, about level with the eye 

 — it will vie with the best of those already mentioned. No plant is 

 better suited for indoor embellishment, vases, baskets, etc., and it is 

 almost a continuous bloomer. Ordinarily good stove treatment is all 

 that is required if grown freely near the glass — no diflacult matter 

 with a passion flower ; the flowering will take care of itself. 



Passifloea QrADEANGULAEis. — Beautiful as is the individual 

 flower of princeps, it, with many others, must succumb in that 

 respect to the marvellously beautiful Passiflora quadrangularis — the 

 Granadilla. This had better be planted out if it is desired to develop 

 the full beauty of the plant. The Granadilla may be easily fruited 

 in our stoves, but it will be necessary to carefully impregnate the 

 blooms, as the breezes and insects which help to fertilize the ovary 

 in its native country are impossible in our stoves. The roof of a 

 stove with fruit and flowers of the Granadilla suspended from it is 

 by no means a common sight, but it is quite easy of accomplishment. 

 The fruit is often imported, though the " Granadillas " of the 

 shops are sometimes the produce of Passiflora laurifolia. 



HoTAS. — The Hoyas are largely used in good plant places as 

 stove climbers, but it is doubtful if any of them are m this respect 

 better or more interesting than the old carnosa, which used to be so 

 easily grown by the old gardeners ; often in a small pot a plant would 

 cover the back wall. 



Rhtis'COSpeemum jASMiifOiDES — generally grown and cata- 

 logued as a greenhouse climber — may be well grown in the stove and 

 intermediate house, and nothing can be better worthy a position 

 there. It is usually shown well as a pot plant, though, strange to 

 say, not so well at the London shows as elsewhere, and may be 

 grown to cover a six-foot trellis with a sheet of snowy blossoms. It 

 is to stove and greenhouse climbers what the common Jasmine is to 

 hardy wall plants. 



Thunbeegia H^eeisii will repay cultivation wherever a rather 

 large collection is aimed at, as it produces its fine large blue flowers 

 in tolerable plenty, is of fine habit, and of the easiest culture. 



W. R. 



