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It will carry foliage from the lowest parts of the 

 plant for many years, and maintain an equal distri- 

 bution of the growth and leaf from its lowest parts up 

 to the top, although it may be from twelve to fifteen 

 feet in height. It is not a fast grower, but possesses 

 a most tenacious power of endurance ; no weather 

 seems to affect it. 



It is very striking in its appearance when in berry, 

 which it bears in large clusters. These continue on 

 the plant for many months, contrasting in a remark- 

 able way with the foliage, which is of an intensely 

 dark green, the berries being of a vermilion colour. 

 It is a very desirable plant for walls where continued 

 neatness and an evergreen covering are the objects in 

 view, let the situation be what it may. 



The pruning consists in merely an annual cutting off 

 of foreright growth, i.e. the little growth it will make 

 direct from the wall, and a laying in of the leaders 

 and sub -leaders. Old plants may be renovated by 

 cutting them back severely, and then strong young 

 wood will be made in the following season. 



The Calampelis Scabra. 



This is the Eccremocarpus of some, and is a tribe 

 belonging to the Bignonias. The flowers are small, but 

 beautiful and of great substance. The plant bears 

 its flowers in immense clusters, and continues to do so 

 all through the summer in places favourable to its 

 growth. It is a most rapid climber, and will grow to 

 the height of ten or twelve feet during one season if 

 the plant is strong at the root. It requires particular 

 attention in pruning and training during the growing 

 season, for if neglected for only a week or two the con- 

 fusion of the tender growth will be irremediable. 



Some thinning out of the young growth and careful 

 training in of the remaining leaders and laterals can- 

 not be dispensed with, without a great loss of beauty 

 and good order in this climber. Young plants gene- 

 rail v die down to the ground in the late autumn and 



