PI. 205. 



PASSION FLOAVER IX FULL BLOOM, PASSIFLORA SP.. S. P. I. No. 35215. 



Although passion flowers have been grown in the conservatories of Europe for generations 

 and their remarkable flowers considered emblems of the Crucifixion, and although at least one 

 species (P. edulis) has become of commercial importance in Australia and is even grown for market 

 n Scotland, practically no attention has been given to them by Americans. The ease with which 

 ,hey can be grown, their productiveness, the existence of so many edible-fruited species, and the 

 act that they hybridize readily would seem to make the field of their exploitation a promising 

 one. Photograph (P19576FS) taken by P. H. Dorsett, in greenhouse at Chico, Cal., Field 

 Station, May 16, 1916. 



