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imagination would have taken a somewhat different 
direction. They are all handsome climbers, and mostly 
natives of South America and the West Indies, where 
they climb from tree to tree, forming festoons of the 
richest beauty. Many of them, moreover, produce fruits 
of great size, which are considered delicious adjuncts to 
the desert. They are plants of quick growth and very 
free flowering. The soil best suited for them is a mixture 
of light loam and fibrous peat, with a good addition of 
sand. They all require plenty of room, both for roots 
and also for their branches, and they make beautiful 
objects to cover a fence or any unsightly objects around 
our homes, and with but few exceptions all are hardy in 
this latitude, and nearly all will grow from year to year 
unprotected in the extreme South. Several varieties are 
very common all through the South. 
INCARNATA. 
This variety is to be found almost everywhere in this 
section, and fruits freely, which is commonly ealled 
Maypops; they are edible and as large as a hen’s egg. 
Czrulea is the common blue variety, very generally 
seen in most gardens, and is best known of all this class. 
There are a number of hybrid varieties of great beauty 
of which we append a few. 
EDULIS. 
This isan old inhabitant of our gardens, but on account 
of its free habit of growth and abundant blooms, it well 
merits a place where accommodation for climbers exist; 
the flowers are white and blue, and sweet scented; these 
are succeeded by its elliptic dark purple fruits, which 
are very ornamental, and which in addition form a nice 
addition to the dessert. The leaves are three-lobed, 
