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likely to try it again in a pot if you have any alternative. As re- 

 gards the soil, watering, etc., a word need not be said. " We " 

 once thought a dry conservatory border, in which the plant could 

 ripen its wood well, the correct thing ; but have, since then, seen it 

 growing and flowering even much better from the moist, gravelly 

 soil of a conservatory, and the soil and conditions that will suit the 

 commonest and hardiest greenhouse climber will suit it. Of course 

 it must be pruned in close every winter, and that is about the only 

 work necessary after planting ; and, once the plant is grown and 

 tied over the space you intend it to cover, that interloosing and tri- 

 weekly cutting out necessary with Coba?a, Passiflora, Tacsonia, etc., 

 is fortunately never required. Mr. Gibson tried this plant as an 

 edging at Battersea — a bold move indeed — and it flowered pretty 

 freely with him ; but it cannot be recommended for this purpose. 



HAEEOT^AM^'^S ELEGAXS. 



A true greenhouse evergreen plant, native of Mexico, introduced 

 in 1844; "flowers in the first month," says Paxton — he should 

 have said in all twelve, for, if placed in the right position, there is 

 not a day in the year but you may find good flowers on this plant. 

 That position is against a pillar in a conservatory, where it can run 

 up to its full height, and its fat shoots, that keep bursting up so 

 determinedly when the plant is cramped in pots, or cut in too much 

 in any position, satisfy themselves, and break out into gracefully- 

 pendant shoots, that hang down tipped with rich bunches of carmine 

 flowers — good "for cutting" and embellishment of most kinds. 

 It is not the least fastidious about soil, and will grow " anywhere " 

 in a conservatory ; best suited, however, for large ones, where it 

 may not be necessary to cut in the free-flowering growth that 

 spreads so widely round a pillar. It is one of those plants that 

 might be the better of removal and replanting after four or five years' 

 work, as it then might get exhausted, which is not the case with the 

 Plumbago. Other species may be as good or better, and are worth 

 trying in this way. 



CANTIJA DEPENI>E2s"S 



is not marked as a climber in the catalogues, but that is the best 

 way to grow it. Put it against the back wall of a greenhouse, and 

 try it ! At the Marquis of Westminster's, Eaton Hall, there is a 

 magnificent plant of Lapageria rosea planted against a back wall, 

 and spreading about in all directions. It is planted in moist rich 

 loam, in a border a little below the level of the pathway; and 

 though Mr. Collinson sometimes counts 500 flowers on his Lapageria 

 at one time, he has a plant growing next it, in tlie same border, and 

 under the same conditions, which he values as highly, and that is 

 Cantua dependens. It does not flower continuously, as the noble 

 Lapageria may be said to do ; but then the splendid spikes of flowers 

 which it yields in the early part of the season compensate for that. 



COB.EA SCAXDE^'S. 



As for this old friend of ours, he is not much good for the 

 greenhouse proper, or conservatories of the ordinary type; but if 



