114 THE FRUIT-TREE AND SHRUB PRUNER. 



io shorten these laterals by cutting them in moderately 

 close. Then a new annual growth will be made, pro- 

 ducing an abundance of flowers throughout the summer. 

 I cannot convey any adequate idea to the reader of the 

 beauty and richness of a well-managed Escallonia 

 Macrantha trained thus on a wall, facing the south or 

 south-west, if he should happen to have no knowledge 

 of this plant. 



The Lapageria. 



There are at present but two varieties of this 

 beautiful climber — one a rose-coloured flower and the 

 other a pure white. Both of these are admirable plants 

 for trellis- work in the conservatory. They grow freely 

 and flower profusely. The flowers are bell-shaped, and 

 are suspended from the laterals in a beautiful manner, 

 hanging below the foliage. 



This plant should be trained so as to give the flowers 

 the advantage of a free suspension, and the kind of 

 trellis on which to train it should, no doubt, be one of a 

 cylindrical shape, having tiers on tiers of wire, each 

 one sufficiently far apart to admit of the flowers swing- 

 in a- clear of the one underneath ; and they should also 

 betrained all round. The flowers are produced on the 

 loner laterals, which must be tied to the leader. The 

 pruning consists in cutting these laterals back after the 

 flowering is over. 



The Habrothamnus. 



These are an extraordinary kind of flowering green- 

 house plants, H. Fasciculatus being one of the most 

 profuse in that respect. The flowers are of a crimson 

 colour, and grow in immense clusters on the ends of the 

 laterals. The pruning consists in an annual cutting-in 

 after the flowering is over, shortening in those laterals 

 and cutting back the old growth, so as to induce a new 

 growth throughout the whole plant. 



