THE FLORAL WOULD 



AND 



GARDEN GUIDE. 



OCTOBER, 186 8 



PASSION-FLOWEES, 

 "With Fiquee of Tacsonia Buchattani. 



OLLECTIOjS'S of stove and greenhouse plants have, 

 during the past few years, been greatly enriched by the 

 addition of several noble climbers belonging to the 

 beautiful order of passion-flowers, and the subject now 

 introduced to the notice of our readers, with the aid of 

 a coloured plate, is undoubtedly one of the most valuable amongst 

 them. Perhaps the most valuable of the series is the free-growing 

 and almost hardy Tacsonia Van-Volxemi, described at page ISl of the 

 Floeal "World for May, 1866 ; second to which, without doubt, 

 we may place T. Buclianani, both on account of its luxuriant habit 

 of growth and the splendour of its flowers. 



" Buchanan's Passion- Flower," as this plant may be conveniently 

 called, is a native of Panama, whence it was first obtained by Mr. 

 Buchanan, horticulturist, of jS'ew York, and thence passed into the 

 hands of M. A. Yerschafl"elt, of Grhent, who has multiplied the 

 plant for the benefit of European cultivators. In its native habitat 

 it is extremely plentiful, and in common with other rampant climbing 

 plants of the forests of tropical America, it wreathes the loftiest 

 trees with festoons, clothing them afresh with its abundance of dark 

 green leaves and brilliant scarlet flowers. It is there almost con- 

 stantly in flower, but under cultivation its seasons of flowering are 

 during May and June, and again during September and October. 

 One of its good properties as a decorative plant is its habit of 

 flowering freely when quite young, so that it might, no doubt, be 

 grown as a pot specimen in the same way that another section of 

 rampant climbers, the Bougainvilleas, have been successfully managed. 

 The elegant outlines of the leaves, whicii are distinctly and* uniformly 

 lobed, adds much to the graceful elegance of the plant, and in fact 

 it will prtsent an attractive appearance for that reason alone when 

 trained up a pillar, or allowed to haug in festoons from the roof, 

 even when out of flower. 



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