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Magna," " Beauty of Worcester," " Fairy Queen," " Henryi," " Lanuginosa 

 Candida," " xMadame Van Houtte," " Modesta," " Otto Froebel," and/' Panicu- 

 lata." 



5. ViTiCELLA Type. — Climbing, large-flowered summer]] and autumn 

 bloomers, flowering successionally in profuse masses on summer shoots, but less 

 continuously than the next section, 6. 



This is a small section, and I know of only one being grown here, " Viti- 

 cella Rubra Grandiflora. 



6. Jackmanni Type. — Climbing, mostly large-flowered summer and 

 autumn bloomers, flowering successionally in profuse continuous masses on 

 summer shoots, This is a large class and the most suitable for this climate ; the 

 following are the ones mostly grown here, "Flammula," "Jackmanni," "Jack- 

 manni Alba," ' ' Madame Grange," " Mrs. Baron Veillard," " Lady Redcliffe," 

 " Rubella," " Star of India," and " Velutina Purpurea." 



Then there is another class of shrubby herbaceous plants, of which 

 " Davidiana," " Erecta," " Integrifolia," and " Stans," are examples, and are quite 

 hardy here but do not resemble the climbing varieties at all. 



Now, while all these different 

 varieties can be grown here, yet 

 it is almost impossible to save 

 the old wood over winter. To 

 leave them on the trellis is cer- 

 tain death to the parts exposed ; 

 to lay them down without break- 

 ing their slender stems is almost 

 mpossible, so that all should be 

 cut in fall to within six inches of 

 the ground, and will bloom on 

 the new wood, but, of course, 

 those whose habit is to bloom on 

 the old wood, will not give such 

 profusion of bloom as those of 

 sections 4, 5 and 6. I have seen 

 a " Jackmanni " at St. Catha- 

 rines blooming in spring from the 

 old wood left on the trellis all 

 winter. There is a slight gain in 

 earliness of bloom in this, but 

 with fewer blooms later on, for 

 any plant to force sap through a 

 partially dead or dry stem is a 

 waste of strength and injurious, 

 751. so that I would advise all here 



