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grant. There is also a variety having purple 

 flowers. 



C. florida plena is a fine free flowering plant; though 

 generally considered a shrub, is more herbaceous 

 than shrubby ; the flowers are large double white ; 

 in growth will not exceed ten feet in one season. 



Glycine frutescens, a beautiful native climbing shrub, 

 known in our gardens under that name, but is pro- 

 perly Wisteria frutescens. It has large pendulous 

 branches of blue leguminose (pea-like) flowers, 

 blooming from May to August; pinnated leaves 

 with nine ovate downy leaflets ; grows freely. 



Glycine chinensis is given to Wisteria, and is the finest 

 climbing shrub of the phaseolius tribe. The flow- 

 ers are light blue, in long nodding many-flowered 

 racemose spikes, blooming from May to August, 

 profusely ; leaves pinnated, with eleven ovate lance- 

 olate silky leaflets, and is of a very rapid growth. 

 It is perfectly hardy, withstanding the severity of 

 our winters without protection. 



Bignonia crucigera is an evergreen which is very desira- 

 ble in many situations, being likewise of luxuriant 

 growth. It will cover in a few years an area of 

 fifty feet ; flowers of an orange scarlet colour, bloom- 

 ing from May to August. 



B. grandiflora, now given to Tecoma, has large orange- 

 coloured flowers, blooming from June to August, 

 and grows very fast. It is perfectly hardy, and a 

 most magnificent plant. 



B. rddicans is likewise given to Tecoma, and is a native 

 plant. When in flower it is highly ornamental, 

 but it requires great attention to keep it in regular 

 order, being of a strong rough nature ; in bloom 

 from June to August. 



Periplaca graeca, silk vine, is a climber of extraordinary 

 growth. Well established plants grow thirty or 

 forty feet in one season ; flowers in clusters from 

 May to July, of a brownish-yellow colour, and hairy- 

 inside ; leaves smooth, ovate, lanceolate, wood slen- 

 der, twining and elastic. 



ffedera Helix, Irish Ivy, is a valuable evergreen for cover- 

 ing naked walls, or any other unsightly object. The 

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