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The flowers are axillary, on very short pe- 

 duncles, of a yellowish green colour, coming 

 out in July and August. Male plants mostly 

 cultivated. 



Culture. — The propagation in these plants 

 may be effected either by cuttings or layers of 

 the young sh«ots. The first should be planted 

 in pots of good light mould either in the spring 

 or summer months, plunging them in moderate 

 hot-beds. 



The lavers should be laid down in the spring, 

 and, when perfectly rooted, taken off and set out 

 in pots as in the other way. 



Their further management is that of keeping 

 them in the protection of the green-house, wa- 

 tering them freely in summer, but very sparingly 

 during the winter season. 



All these plants are very ornamental in their 

 flowers, especially the male ones, producing a 

 tine effect in the green-house collections. 



CLIMBING PLANTS, such plants as ascend 

 either spirally round supports, or by means of 

 claspers and tendrils. 



They are either herbaceous or woody; and 

 which, according to their mode of climbing, may 

 be denominated Twining Climbers, Cirrhous 

 Climbers, and Parasitic Climbers. 



The first are such as have winding stalks, 

 and twist about any neighbouring support, such 

 as scarlet kidney-beans, hops, and some sorts of 

 honeysuckle. 



The second are such as ascend by means of 

 spiral strings, issuing from the sides of the 

 stalks and branches, or from the foot-stalks of 

 the leaves, and even from the leaves themselves, 

 twisting about any thing they meet with, by 

 which their stalks are supported and arrive at the. 

 proper height, such as most of the pea tribe, cu- 

 cumber, vine, passion-flower, and various others. 



The last are also of the same kind, but their 

 claspers plant themselves as roots in the bark 

 of the plants on which they ascend, or in the 

 crevices of walls or pales, thereby supporting 

 themselves, and mount to their tops, as the 

 ivy, Virginia creeper, radicant bignonia, and se- 

 veral others. 



Some of these sorts of plants, both of the 

 herbaceous and shrubby kinds, are very or- 

 namental. The principal of the herbaceous 

 kind are; the everlasting pea, painted lady-pea, 

 scarlet and white kidney-bean, nasturtium, 

 gourd, hop-plant, scarlet convolvulus, and many 

 others. 



The chief of the shrubby kinds, or such as 

 have perennial stalks are: the radicant and ever- 

 green bignoniu, climbing ceiastrus, different 



species and varieties of virgin's-bower, kidney- 

 bean-tree of Carolina, ivy, Virginia creeper, 

 many sorts of honeysuckle, passion-flower, 

 many varieties of periwinkle, the vine, and se- 

 veral others. 



Most of the herbaceous climbers are very or- 

 namental, and may be introduced in large bor- 

 ders, placing sticks for their support. The 

 more tall growing sorts may also be employed 

 to run over arbours or rural seats in pleasure- 

 grounds. 



The shrubby sorts are most of them proper 

 furniture for shrubberies of considerable extent, 

 in which they may be employed in different 

 ways ; some being dispersed in the clumps, de- 

 tached from other plants, placing tall, strong 

 stakes for their support ; others placed in large 

 borders and the boundaries of lawns, &c. ; and 

 some near hardy trees and large shrubs, to climb 

 about their stems, or interweave in their branches 

 and tops; in the ornamenting of naked or un- 

 sightly walls and other high buildings ; and in de- 

 corating and forming rural arbours, where there 

 is any kind of open-work for the branches to 

 climb upon, they are likewise very useful, as they 

 shoot very rapidly. 



These sorts should many of them be kept 

 properly cut in during the autumn and early 

 spring months. 



CLITORIA, a genus containing plants of 

 the exotic climbing kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Diadelphia 

 Decandria, and ranks in the natural order of 

 PapilionacecB or Leguminosce. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a one- 

 leafed, erect, tubular, five-toothed, permanent pe- 

 rianthium: the corolla is papilionaceous: stand- 

 ard very large, straight, emarginate, waved at the 

 margin, spreading, and overshadowing the other 

 petals: wings oblong, straight, obtuse, shorter 

 than the standard : keel shorter than the wings, 

 falcated somewhat roundly : the stamina are in 

 two brotherhoods (simple and nine-cleft): anthers 

 simple: the pistillum is an oblong germ : style 

 ascending: stigma obtuse : the pericarpium is a 

 legumevery long, linear,compressed, one-celled, 

 two-valved, with the tip subulate: the seeds 

 many and reniform. 



The species are: 1. C. ternata, Winged- 

 leaved Clitoria; 2. C. BrasUiana, Brasilian Cli- 

 toria ; 3. C. Firginiana, Small-flowered Virgi- 

 nian Clitoria. 



The first rises with a twining herbaceous stalk 

 to the height of four or five feet, in the manner 

 of the kidney-bean, requiring similar support : 

 the leaves are winged, composed of two or three 



