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H. Picta. — Small leaves, fine lobed, and 



H. Roegneriana or Colchica (Giant Ivy), with large thick leathery leaves, are the best. 

 There is however, one plant which should be in every collection of indoor plants and 

 which seems to do well with ordinary culture, and that is, 



Manellia Bicolor {Origan Rio Janiero). — Named in honour of Xavier Manette, pre- 

 fect of Botanic Gardens at Florence ; one of an elegant family of greenhouse climbing 

 plants, suitable for training over a wire trellis, attached to the pots in which they grow ; 

 it delights in a moderately warm and moist atmosphere. It is a winter flowering plant, 

 the flowers are scattered thickly along the vine, colour scarlet tipped with yellow covered 

 with tine hairs that resemble the marking on a butterfly's wings, the whole flower of a 

 waxy texture, tubular in shape, terminating in four short points, giving it a square 

 ■appearance from the face. 



W. E. Wellington. 



Among our native climbers, there are several sorts deserving of notice. First, 

 among these we would place the wild Yam (Dioscorea Villosa), a perennial plant, with 

 thick, fleshy, knotted roots, which send up early in spring a number of rapid growing shoots, 

 which soon develop, leaves strongly netted veined and wonderfully beautiful, these leaves 

 overhang in a regular symmetrical manner, the colour of the leaves is a deep rich green, 

 the flowers are small, whitish and inconspicuous, found throughout the southern part of 

 Ontario. 



Celastrus Scandens {False Bittersweet). — A rapid young climber with handsome 

 foliage ; flowers green and insignificant, followed in the autumn by bunches of berries of a 

 brilliant scarlet. 



Menispermum Canadense (Moonseed). — A very pretty climber, with large and pretty 

 foliage of a rich green colour, which twines around trees and tall shrubs in our woods ; 

 the flowers here are also inconspicuous. 



Adlumia Cirrhosa {Climbing fuviitory). — A biennial climber, common westward, but 

 not found as far as we know in Ontario. The foliage of this plant is very beautiful, 

 finely cut, and a very free bloomer, flowers formed as in Dielytra spectabilis, and of a 

 yellowish white colour. 



W. Saunders. 



Mr. Saunders. — The Clematis, the name of which I was trying to recall a little 

 while ago, is the Graveolens, the yellow flowering one. The Periploca Grseca has been 

 growing with me for some years, but I have never had it flower. It is a very rapid 

 growing climber, and I think it is one that deserves to be well known. 



Mr. Beadle. — I move that this report be received with thanks, and be handed to 

 the Publication Committee to to be incorporated in our annual report. 



The motion was seconded and carried. 



FENCES. 

 Mr. Beall submitted the following report from the Committee on Fences : — 



ROAD-SIDE fences. 



The Committee to whom was referred the report of the Committee on Fences at our 

 last winter meeting, with instructions to furnish such facts, figures or cii'cumstances as 

 led them to the conclusion arrived at in that report, now respectfully submit, 



