250 THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. [November, 



peculiar feature is, that the superior limb of the anterior part has a very callous 

 line springing from it, and there are five elevated ridges on the disc of the lip, 



and a little bilobed callus at its base ; the conical spur is very short, velvety 

 inside, -while over against the mouth of the spur stand two parallel oblique rows 

 of brown points. There can be no doubt that this lovely plant will create a 

 sensation among amateurs. We learn from the Messrs. Veitch that it appears to 

 be a free flowerer. M. 



BIGNONIA EADIOANS. 



JOW rarely one sees this fine old climbing plant now-a-days ! I do not remem- 

 ber to have met with it in any place in Yorkshire that I have visited. 

 There is a plant of it here, growing against the wall in the kitchen garden, 

 at the end of a range of Vineries. It is an old plant, and has been in its 

 present place for a number of years. The only attention that is given to it, is 

 to prune it in to an eye, like a vine, every autumn after the fall of the leaves. It 

 is perfectly hardy, having stood the severe frost of December, 1860, without 

 protection, when hundreds of common Hollies were killed to the ground. This 



