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the Passifloras, it is unnecessary to repeat the directions, 

 and it will be sufficient to state that T. Van Volxemii is 

 one of the best, and remarkably beautiful with its showy 

 scarlet blooms and its edible fruit. 



Of a different order of beauty are the Thunbergias, 

 which are pretty annual or perennial twining plants, 

 some of which are more suited for trellises or low 

 pillars than for the rafters or roof, though such species 

 as coccinea and grandiflora are all comparatively vigorous 

 growers doing best in the stove. They prefer a good 

 soil, composed of loam, sand, and some thoroughly 

 rotted cow dung, and are generally raised from seeds, 

 which germinate freely in a warm house. The perennial 

 species are also increased by means of cuttings of the 

 young growths about four inches long in a propagating 

 frame or under a glass with a temperature of about 

 seventy degrees. 



Stephanotis floribunda is one of the most valued of 

 our stove climbers or twiners, as everyone appreciates 

 its deliciously fragrant, wax-like white flowers. A good 

 turfy loam is the most approved soil, though it will 

 grow in peat also, and this should be placed in a bed 

 prepared in the house and the plants trained to a trellis 

 on the roof. It does not like too much heat, and many 

 good growers prefer the intermediate house to the stove 

 for its cultivation. Propagation is effected by cuttings 

 of the previous year's wood of about two joints struck 

 in a heat of sixty degrees, rising to seventy degrees, or 

 of young shoots with a heel. 



The fine Tecomas, closely allied to the Bignonias, 

 should have similar treatment to these plants. Grandi- 

 flora is one of the best of the greenhouse climbing 

 species, though jasminoides is also pretty. The Adeno- 

 calymnas in cultivation have principally yellow flowers, 

 and should be treated like the stove Bignonias, to which 

 they are related. 



