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and thrust himself out of the windows in the roof and 

 waved to passers-by, and behaved rudely. For the 

 moment he is under a cloud with me; but I may 

 grow him again some day. My favourite is lophosper- 

 mum scandens, now classed with maurandya, I hear ; 

 though if I had arranged this botanical shuffle, I 

 should have classed maurandya with him. Lopho- 

 spermum is generally considered a cool house climber, 

 and in the north it may be so ; but here I grow her 

 as an annual on my garden-room. Her habit is light 

 and dainty; her deep, rosy, trumpet-shaped flowers 

 stud the long branches and make harmony with the 

 pleasant green of the leaves. My picture represents 

 a single plant grown from seed that ripened in the 

 open air last year. Lophospermum is at her best in 

 mid-October. Maurandya I like also and have grown, 

 but she is a much smaller thing, and not quite so good- 

 hearted with me. 



One might mention fifty other annuals and peren- 

 nials much to be desired in connection with the sides 

 of a garden-room ; and I hope you have them, and 

 enjoy them, and go on adding to the stock. Creepers 

 and twiners are a noble family ; also those many 

 shrubs with a tendency to climb. Of these I have a 

 few only in sequestrated nooks. Among them berberi- 

 dopsis corallina flowered for the first time this year, 

 and trachelospermum jasminoides did the same. This 

 plant is better known as rhynchospermum among his 

 intimates. He comes from Shanghai, but will flourish 

 and shed light and sweetness against a sheltered wall 

 in these parts. Holbcellia, stauntonia, and lardizabala 



