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stray blossoms of the deep red Bignonia cherare, 

 with its long yellow-throated trumpets, appear in 

 the winter months, but sufficient to give promise 

 of glories to come in the month of April. 



In the same month the close-growing Tecoma 

 flava will become wreathed with its golden-yellow 

 trumpet flowers, clothing many a wall and straying 

 across tiled roofs, as it is so neat and clinging in its 

 habit that it never becomes so heavy a mass as 

 to damage buildings. Its companion at the same 

 season is Tecoma Lindleyana, bearing large mauve 

 trumpet flowers, with a throat of a lighter shade. 

 The individual flowers are of extremely delicate 

 texture, and are beautifully veined with a slightly 

 darker shade of purple. Yet another tecoma un- 

 furls its blossoms late in the month of April, but is 

 not so often met with as the two former varieties, 

 possibly because the plant, when out of flower, 

 presents rather an unsightly and straggling appear- 

 ance ; but no one can fail to admire the pure 

 white and yellow throated blossoms of this Tecoma 

 Micheliensis, as it is most commonly called, though 

 I believe it has a second, and possibly more correct, 

 name. 



For May and June is reserved, probably, the 

 most beautiful of all the tecomas, jasminoides. The 



