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flowers in August. It requires support, as it has the pro- 

 pensity to attach itself to everything in its neighborliood, 

 like the last, by its j^etioles. 



€. illtCja^rifolia. — Entire-leaved. — A handsome, upright 

 plant, about two feet high, producing nodding, bell-shap- 

 ed, blue flowers, most of the season. 



C. VitiC(^lla is a much admired species, with blue flow- 

 ers, Avliicli are produced from June to September, on long 

 peduncles from the axils of the leaves; rather bell-shaped, 

 and nodding. Tt is a climber, growing from eight to ten 

 feet in a season, dying down to the ground, in this climate, 

 but otherwise hardy. There is a variety with double 

 flowers, others with brownish-red flowers, and several im- 

 proved varieties. 



€• Flanilllllla is a hixuriant climber, having clusters of 

 small white fragrant flowers, in August and September. 



C. florida has large white flowers ; like the last, a luxuri- 

 ant climber. There is a variety with double flowers. 



C. SicboMlD. — Siebold's Virgin's Bower. — This magni- 

 ficent plant is said to be a variety of C florida^ and, till 

 lately, treated as a green-house plant, but it has proved 

 as hardy as the other sorts. The flowers are three or four 

 inclies in diameter, the outer sepals, or petals, a creamy 

 white, filled up with others, disposed in many series, the 

 groundwork of the petals is white, sufi*used with a rich 

 purple. No plant possesses a stronger claim to a place in 

 the flower-garden, from its graceful habit, and from the 

 size and beauty of its blossoms. 



Tlie i)lant thrives best in a mixture of loam and peat, 

 and is increased by layers. It was introduced by Dr. 

 Siebold, from Japan, a few years since. I have kept it 

 two winters, by covering it lightly with coarse manure. 

 C. aziirea grand'iflora^ or Great-flowering Blue Virgin's 

 Bower, has still larger flowers than the variety Sleboldii. 



