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to forty feet in one season, producing at the axils of the 

 young shoots large panicles of small white flowers of 

 exquisite fragrance ; the leaves are compound pinnate; 

 in bloom from June to November, but in June, July, 

 September, and October, the flowers are in great pro- 

 fusion, perfuming the whole garden. This is Dne of 

 the best climbing hardy plants that we know, and it 

 ought to have a situation in every garden. 



C. Virgiana, is of rapid growth, and well adapted for 

 arbours ; flowers small white in axillary panicles, dioe- 

 cious, leaves ternate, segments cordate, acute, coarsely 

 toothed and lobed, in bloom from June to August. A 

 native, and a little fragrant. 



C. florida pleno, is a fine free flowering plant, though 

 generally considered a shrub, is more herbaceous than 

 shrubby ; the flowers are large double white ; in growth 

 will not exceed ten feet in one season. 



Glycine frutescens, a beautiful native climbing shrub, 

 known in our gardens under that name, but is properly 

 Wisteria frutescens. It has large pendulous branches of 

 blue (leguminose) flowers, blooming from May to Au- 

 gust ; pinnated leaves with nine ovate downy leaflets ; 

 grows freely. 



Glycine chmensis, is given to Wisteria, and is the finest 

 climbing shrub of the phaseolious tribe. The flowers 

 are light blue, in long nodding many-flowered racemose 

 spikes, blooming from May to August profusely; leaves 

 pinnated, with eleven ovate lanceolate silky leaflets, 

 and is of a very rapid growth. We are not certain if 

 it will withstand our winters without protection. 



Bignonia crucigcra, is an evergreen which is very de- 



