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height and breadth of considerably over 20 feet, and 

 one year bore over a dozen huge corrugated seed- 

 pods, about the size of a cricket ball, but oval in 

 shape. This strain killed the plant, but a young one 

 has now taken its place. 



PLUMBAGO CAPENSIS. Cape of Good Hope. A 

 climbing evergreen shrub, bearing large heads of pale- 

 blue flowers ; a favourite conservatory plant. It is 

 grown in several gardens, and flowers well in the 

 open. A fine example, which has been unprotected 

 for five months, is growing in the same site as the 

 Physianthus alluded to above. 



PUERARIA THUNBERGIANA. Khasia. An evergreen 

 climber, with leaves 5 inches in diameter, bearing 

 blue flowers. Fibre is obtained from the stems and 

 starch from the roots. Tregothnan. 



RHODOCHITON VOLUBILE. Mexico. A climber, 

 bearing blood-red drooping flowers. This plant, in 

 common with Lothospermum and Maurandya, all 

 three of which are perennials, is almost invariably 

 killed by the winter, but is easily raised from seed. 

 Rosehill, Falmouth. 



RHYNCHOSPERMUM (TRACHELOSPERMUM) JASMIN- 

 OIDES. Shanghai. An evergreen climber, hardy in 

 the south-west, bearing countless starry- white flowers, 

 most delicately perfumed in August. It is to be met 

 with in the majority of gardens, and in one it has 

 covered the house porch. 



RUSCUS ANDROGYNUS SYN. SEMELE ANDROGYNA. 



Canary Islands. An evergreen climber, valuable for 

 its striking foliage. The leaves, or rather cladodes, 



