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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 



[ OCTORKR, 



about (I in. l)i-oa(l and of any convenient lent;tli, and worked by a strong handle, 

 will effect complete ventilation. The roof here is a fixture. A wall of tlie 

 lieiglit just mentioned will, witli a good "• tip," leave room for a path between 

 two rows of trees. I always grow good crops of large and high-flavoured fruit, 

 and with the exception of the rijjening season, when the wasps scent our dainties 

 from afar, I know but few disappointments. 



If this commencement is admissible, I purpose going into such general detail 

 as shall place all my knowledge of this new branch of gardening at the command 

 of your readers. — G. D. [Please do.] 



TECOMA RADIOANS. 



f^EW of our hardy climbers are better worth growing than the North- 

 American Trumpet-flower, sometimes called Biynonia radicans. There 

 Ware two or three varieties, all of them plants of remarkable beauty when 

 freely grown. They are deciduous, their woody climbing stems clinging to 

 the surface of a wall by means of multitudes of short rootlets, in a manner similar 

 to that which may be observed in the case of the ivy. The accompanying figure 



Tecoma radicans. 



from Mr. Hemsley's Handbool: of Ilardij Trees and Shrubs gives a good idea of the 

 general aspect of the plant, which is of free habit, growing from 20 ft. to 30 ft. 

 high, and covering a considerable space of wall if encouraged to do so. It has pale 

 brownish stems and branches, which are something like those of the vine, but 

 smaller, rough and rooty, with opposite pinnate leaves, which consist of nine ovate 

 acuminate serrated leaflets, and are not furnished with tendrils, — this being one of 

 the peculiarities by which Tecoma is separated from Bi(jiio)iia. The flowers are 



