106 THE FRUIT-TREE AND SHRUB PRUNER. 



difference in the internal construction of the seed vessel 

 — is one both of grandeur and beauty. As a tribe they 

 constitute plants fit for outdoor and indoor ornamenta- 

 tion, being of comparatively easy management ; but, in 

 spite of this, we seldom find them grown in our con- 

 servatories. B. Alba is a splendid conservatory sweet- 

 scented plant. B. Grandifolia is another good climber, 

 and grows rapidly, its flowers being of an orange and 

 purple colour blended together. Then there is B. liadi- 

 cans, sufficiently hardy to stand out of doors on a south 

 wall. 



These are magnificent specimens with their grand 

 trumpet-shaped flowers of a large size, varying in 

 colour from white to crimson. These flowers are pro- 

 duced upon the current season's wood, similar to those 

 of the Grape Yine, the treatment of which as to the 

 pruning will serve for an example. 



The Climbing Bignonias should, in the first instance, 

 have permanent leaders laid in as for the Yine, then 

 these will give laterals on which come the flowers ; and 

 when the flowering season is over these laterals may be 

 cut back to spurs. Care should be taken that the wood 

 is well ripened, or but few or no flowers will be the 

 result. Some thinning out will be necessary during 

 the growing season to let the sun get at the young 

 wood in order to ripen it thoroughly. 



The Tacsonia. 



The Tacsonias are a genus of the Passiflora, or a divi- 

 sion of that genus. The flowers, which are produced on 

 long pendulous footstalks, are showy and somewhat 

 remarkable. The Tacsonias are conservatory plants of 

 a quick growth and moderately free in the flower. The 

 pruning may be assimilated to that of the Passion- 

 flower. 



The Aristolochia. 



These are a genus of noble and beautiful-foliaged 

 climbers, with curious, but, as a rule, insignificant 



