A LIST OP GREENHOUSE CHEEPERS. 125 



ARTICLE VIII. 



A LIST OF GREENHOUSE CREEPERS. 



BY A COUNUBIAN. 



In the last number of the Floricultural Cabinet a querist requires an 

 answer on greenhoase creepers ; and seeing many queries not 

 answered, I take the liberty, through your widely circulated and in- 

 telligent publication, of offering a few remarks to your subscribers : 

 not that I pretend to be able to instruct your numerous readers, but 

 that I feel it my duty to make a return for the useful knowledge they 

 have afforded me. 



The following kinds are the most handsome I know, as well as free 

 bloomers : — 



Big?ionia grandiflora is a climbing shrub, growing ten or twelve 

 feet high, but it commences flowering when two or three feet high ; 

 its flowers are produced in panicles, each flower being two and a half 

 inches across, and of a deep red colour ; it was introduced from Japan 

 many years ago, and should be grown in the border or a large pot, in 

 a rich loamy soil. It flowers in July. 



Clematis azurea grandiflora is a beautiful flowering new plant; 

 its flowers are of a pale violet colour, four inches across. It may be 

 cultivated in pot or border of loam and peat. It flowers in April and 

 May ; introduced from Japan in 1837. 



Clematis jlorida bicolor (Sieboldii) is a beautiful showy flower, 

 which is of large size, and of a greenish white colour : it has an 

 Anemone-like centre of a dark purple ; this and the last species are 

 hardy, but well deserve their room in a house. It blooms in April 

 and May ; a native of Japan. 



Hoya carnosa is an old plant, but pretty, and free to cultivate in a 

 pot or border ; it resembles an Asclepias (it is commonly called the 

 Wax Plant). It flowers in June and July ; a native of China. 



Kenncdya rubicunda is a rapid grower, and will not display its 

 beauty except in the greenhouse border. Its flowers are of a dark 

 red, and plentifully produced, in April and May. It is a native of 

 New Holland, and delights in a sandy peat soil, with plenty of 

 drainage. 



Kennedya Marry uUiana. This is a dwarfer species than the last, 



