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loots, which we might expect to have, if grown in a pot, and 

 raised from a cutting in the second or third year. 



I received a plant from Europe, in- the spring of 1847, which 

 grew rather poorly the first season, and only gave about a 

 dozen flowers : this year, I had a good show of blossoms, and 

 I consider it one of the most delicate and beautiful climbers 

 we have. To grow it well, it requires a very rich soil and 

 plenty of pot-room, and to be freely supplied with water when 

 in a growing state. The compost I have used has been equal 

 parts of a rather strong loam and leaf mould, with a little 

 very rotten hotbed manure and sand : in this, it has grown 

 Avell, and I find the pot well filled with fine strong roots, of 

 the thickness of a pipe-stem, presenting a very different ap- 

 pearance to what they did last year, and, I doubt not, an- 

 other season, I shall have a fine specimen. It is a very abun- 

 dant bloomer, and bears flowers of a very pleasing color, a 

 light pinkish rose, which, however, deepens when grown in 

 the open air. 



I have several planted out ; they have grown well, and 

 some of them have over fifty flowers and buds upon them at 

 this time. They were cuttings raised late last year, and they 

 have done quite as well as I could expect : they are forming 

 fine roots for another season, and I am satisfied it will be a 

 very useful and highly ornamental plant, easily cultivated, 

 either in pots, or out in the open ground, when a good stock 

 of roots, of suflicient strength, shall have been raised. Plants 

 grown in pots, if properly treated, flower for a considerable 

 length of time during the summer; a plant that I exhibited 

 in June is still in flower, but will not continue so long. After 

 flowering, they should be placed out of doors, and, in autumn, 

 gradually dried ofl", when they should be put away for the 

 winter in a perfectly cool place. Young plants, and espe- 

 cially those raised from cuttings late in the season, will re- 

 quire to be kept growing as late as possible; for, if the root 

 has not acquired sufficient substance before moisture is with- 

 held, they will dry up and be useless. It is a great favorite 

 with the red spider, and, consequently, this troublesome in- 

 sect must be carefully watched, and not be aUowed to injure 

 the plants. 



For planting out, the soil should be made rich, and a rather 



