RHYNCHOSPERMUM, HELIOTROPE 73 



The Rhynchospermum 



This is a plant of climbing- habit, having rich, 

 dark green, shining foliage. Its flowers are pure white, 

 and of peculiar appearance, as each petal is twisted in 

 such a manner as to give one the impression that the 

 turbine windmill wheel was modeled after it. The 

 individual flowers are small ; they are borne in clusters, 

 and are oroduced most freely in the spring and 

 early part of summer. They are of most delicious 

 fragrance. This plant must be trained to a trellis or 

 along wires in order to get the best effect from it. 

 It is not a showy flower, but it is one that will become 

 a favorite with all who are fond of beauty in modest 

 simplicity. Give it a loamy soil, a moderate amount 

 of water and comparative shade. 



The Heliotrope 



This is one of the most popular flowers we have, 

 and justly so. It is beautiful in form and color, a 

 great bloomer, deliciously fragrant, easily grown, and 

 very useful for cut flower work or personal decoration. 

 It can be made to bloom all the year round, but plants 

 for winter blooming should be kept from blooming dur- 

 ing the summer season. It is a most tractable plant. 

 You can train it as a standard, as a shrub, or to droop, 

 to suit your taste, and it will grow and bloom equally 

 well in either form. A cluster of it is powerful enough 

 to perfume a large room. It is one of those flowers 

 which win friendship, and you find yourself cherishing 

 a feeling of attachment for an old plant. The more 

 you cut it the more flowers it will give you. 



In order to grow it well, it must have a sunny 

 window, considerable warmth, a rich, light soil, plenty 

 of moisture at the roots, and rather more pot room 

 than most plants of its size. I am often asked why 



