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very fiao;rant, and produced in clusters, we find it valuable not 

 only for decoration, but also for the bouquet maker. It will do 

 well in the conservatory or the warmer house for stove plants. If 

 not at the head it is certainly one of the best of greenhouse 

 climbers. My little experience with it says good turfy loam, with 

 leaf-mould and a good sprinkling of silver sand, is what suits it 

 best to grow in. 



I have seen those two magnificent climbers, Lapacjeria rosea and 

 the variet}" alba, pictured as growing together ; in fact, if my mem- 

 ory serves me right, I have seen them planted together at Mr. 

 Hovey's. I do not blame any one for going into raptures over 

 them ; I cannot describe their beauty. I have had no practical ex- 

 perience with them, but I have seen and I love them. I have read in 

 one place of the white variet}", beautifully ornamenting a wall and 

 then stretching across the house on a strong cord, about four feet 

 from the roof and ten feet from the ground, the shoots being allowed 

 to hang gracefully down ; while on the opposite side was a plant of 

 the old crimson kind, which met and mingled with the shoots of 

 the white one. The effect of the mixture of the different colored 

 flowers was, as may be readily supposed, very charming. Their 

 beautv is not fully seen when the plants are stiffly trained against 

 the back wall ; the shoots should be allowed to hang down freely. 



The cultivation that ensures success, as nearly as I can ascertain, 

 comprises, first of all, good drainage ; this is ver}- essential. The 

 drainage material should be covered with a thin layer of fresh 

 moss. The compost should consist of the best fibrous peat with 

 plenty of charcoal and sand, and in the growing and flowering 

 season the plants should have coi)ious supplies of water. They 

 must be constant!}' well syringed to keep off insects. Look out 

 Mell for the sow bugs, which are very fond of the young shoots. 

 The beauty of these lovely plants is that they can be grown to the 

 best advantage in a cool conservatory or greenhouse — better tlian 

 in any other place. 



Clematis indioisa is a good cool greenhouse climber, and can be 

 trained to the rafters ; the branches, which are thickly studded with 

 flowers of a star-like shape and i)ure white, being allowed to droop 

 down. 



Tacsonia Van Volxemii is also a very handsome, fast-growing 

 plant, and is seldom out of bloom. Train the principal stems to 

 the rafters, and allow the young siioots to depend from them, and 



