492 THE GARDENEK. [Nov. 



sandy borders. It grows freely every year from self-sown seeds, and 

 forms a nice companion to similarly habited Linarias, especially for C. 

 maroccana, to which it is an etYective contrast. 



One of the finest of fruiting shrubs I have seen this season is the 

 old Euonymus latifolius, the broad-leaved Spindle-tree. Crataegus 

 coccineus has also been very fine. Hollies are everywhere laden with 

 berries, yellow and red ; while one of the old Yew-trees at Hampton 

 was literally all aglow with berries. I saw a bush of the old " Tea- 

 tree," Lycium barbarum, the other day, bearing long racemes of vivid 

 scarlet berries — rather a novelty in its way, but most effective, as I 

 can testify. One of the best of all fruiting shrubs when seen in perfec- 

 tion, as sometimes near London, is the common blue Passion-flower 

 (P. CcBrulea). It blooms splendidly here, but we cannot get it to fruit. 

 Perhaps the age of the plants has something to do with the question, or 

 cross-fertilisation may be to some extent necessary. Its drooping egg- 

 shaped fruits are so showy that it is worth a little extra trouble in order 

 to be sure of having them. 



ALLAMANDAS FOH AUTUMN AND WINTER. 



Seldom are these plants grown for a display of their rich golden 

 flowers during the declining months of autumn and winter. Generally 

 they are to be seen in great profusion through the summer months, 

 when flower-shows abound, and are therefore largely cultivated by 

 exhibitors of flowering plants. These growers, in the majority of cases, 

 have their plants in good condition ; but in many gardens where 

 plants are not grown for exhibition purposes, it is difficult to find 

 much attention paid to Allamandas — in fact they are not generally 

 well cultivated. However profusely flowered and beautiful they may 

 appear when trained upon balloon trellises and staged for exhibition, 

 they cannot compete, when thus grown and trained, either for effective- 

 ness or beauty, with those grown as climbers under the roof of a plant- 

 stove. When well grown in this position, they by far surpass aiiy other 

 plant I have ever seen employed for the same purpose. 



If the house in which Allamandas are grown is rather lofty, so much 

 the better, as the plants can be allowed to hang some of their shoots 

 down from the wire-work to which they are trained, and thus present 

 a more natural eff"ect. If the house is not sufficiently lofty to allow 

 the growths to suspend from the roof, they will not look stiff" if 

 trained to upright wires. The flower-shoots will grow fully 2 feet 

 in length and hang beneath the roof, thus presenting a natural 

 rather than a stiff appearance. Those who have never seen the roof 

 of a house literally covered with A. Wardleyana (Hendersonii) can- 

 not form any idea of the gorgeous and pleasing effect they produce. 



