800 THE FLOEAL WOKLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



you happen to have charge of one of those enormous glass and iron 

 spans that cover railway-statioDS, or at such a place as Kensiogton 

 and the Crystal Palace, you may make good use of it ; but even 

 then it is not attractive, and is liable to get full of decayed leaves, 

 etc., in the winter, when Passiflora and Tacsonia are quite firm and 

 green. In warm places it does well on a trellis out of doors for the 

 summer, and perhaps this is the best way to grow it for those who 

 like the plant, and have not a place for it indoors. The new or 

 newish variegated variety is pretty, and does not grow so fast, but 

 after all is but a second-rate plant. The Coba^a is mostly used for 

 "greening" large conservatories ; but in this respect it is far in- 

 ferior to Passiflora coerulea, which grows nearly as fast, and is not 

 at all so liable to that unsiglitly decay which so often disfigures the 

 Cobsea high up in the conservatory — perhaps where it may be difii- 

 cult to get at. 



PASSIPLOEA EACEMOSA, CCEETJLEA, AND IMPEBATEICE ETJGEKIE, 



are probably as good or better than any others for the green- 

 house ; if for a large one, so much the better, as they can hardly be 

 developed sufficiently in a low, small structure to show their beauty. 

 Anybody can grow them, so it is useless to repeat the old formula 

 about loam and peat, and peat and loam, and " moderation in 

 watering," and all that kind of thing, which nobody need know a 

 word of to grow such things as these. 



EHTXCOSPEEMUM JASMIXOIDES. 



At length we come to a beauty for the small and if rather warm 

 greenhouse so much the better. If you grow greenhouse climbers 

 in pots, this must be a leader among them ; but if not, nothing you 

 can suspend from a wire is more worthy of attention. It will not 

 exactly grow in " cold obstruction " at the root, like the vigorous 

 Habrothamnus and Plumbago ; and here you may call on the nice 

 bit of peat and loam if you like, adding also some fine sand, and 

 make a special little bed or border for it ; or grow it in a good pot 

 on the bench, and train up the wires. iS'othing can be lovelier than 

 this plant when well grown, and a sheet of snowy blossoms on a 

 globular trellis. Trellises five feet from the pot may be covered by 

 it ; and, shown well in this state, how much better it looks than 

 many things not properly climbers which are tied down trellis- 

 fashion by the exhibitor. At the Chief Secretary's garden in the 

 Phoenix Park, Dublin, Mr. M'Neill, the very able gardener, has, or 

 used to have, some finer specimens of it than those usually shown 

 in London. Being of more delicate growth than most plants of its 

 class, when planted it should be taken a little pains with, put as 

 near as possible to the glass, and be regularly attended to with 

 water. 



CLEMATIS LANUGINOSA. 



Kone of the new hybrid Clematises are nearly so grand as this, 

 but it is rarely grown well, chiefly because it is hardy enough to live 

 in the open air, but not to do well there. Against a warm wall, 

 among shrubs, etc., it may now and then be seen good ; bub if every- 



