78 THE TREE PROPAGATOR AND PLANTER. 



is a splendid fiery-red flower. All these will do well 

 on a south wall and a dry soil, and no house wall 

 should be without one or more of them. They are not 

 dear, nor difficult to grow, and their propagation is 

 easy. 



By Seed. — When seed can be had, sow it in pots or 

 deep seed-pans in the spring, in peat, maiden loam, 

 and sand. Cover the seed half an inch, and set in a 

 good heat till it is up ; then give air and harden off, 

 and pot off as soon as the seedlings can be well 

 handled. 



By Cuttings. — During the summer months select 

 the short side-shoots half ripened ; take them off with 

 a heel or good sound base. Trim the cuttings neatly 

 at the base, and insert them in pots of fine sandy peat 

 and maiden loam. Set the pots, or plunge them into 

 a tan-bed, and put a light over them until the cuttings 

 are rooted ; then lift it off, and continue the pots 

 plunged for a fortnight longer. Many of them may 

 be propagated by cuttings of the roots inserted in pots 

 of sand and peat of equal parts. The choicer kinds 

 may be propagated by grafting them upon seedling 

 stocks of Radicans. The grafting must be done close 

 to the pot, using the sound young wood well ripened; 

 do it in the spring as for Roses. 



The management of the Bignonias may be assimi- 

 lated to that of the Grape Vine, on the long- spur plan 

 of pruning, as the flowers come from well- ripened eyes 

 of the previous year's wood. Seeds of the common 

 varieties may be had of most seedsmen. Catalpa and 

 Stans seed can easily be had for plants or stocks. 



Layering may also be resorted to with advantage. 

 The base of the young wood will quickly emit roots if 

 kept in a moist state and some heat. 



The Passion-flower. 



There are several varieties of hardy Passion-flowers, 

 but none can excel the Ccerulea for the beauty of its 

 flowers and the abundance of its dark foliage. 



