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all do well in like positions. Stauntonia at least I can 

 vouch for personally, because a magnificent specimen 

 is known to me. This has covered the front of a lofty 

 terrace, and is now climbing an elm tree as though to 

 the manner born. 



Cocculus I know not, but it has good friends ; smilax 

 aspera I dug up from his home in a southern wood, 

 and nearly tore myself to pieces while so doing. He 

 has a red-hot corner of my rockery, and I wait for 

 spring to know if he is still there and will peep out 

 when April calls. But it may be that he has perished. 

 To see this plant abroad at the time of fruiting is 

 good. The glory vine, or parrot's beak : clianthus 

 puniceus, is, perhaps, a little over-rated. It prospers 

 against a wall with me ; but it is a poor thing com- 

 pared to the noble clianthus Dampieri. That I 

 grew once, and only once, in a warm, belladonna lily 

 border outside a hothouse. It was one of the most 

 beautiful things I ever produced, and much I mourned 

 it when it passed away and left not a seed behind. 

 This glory vine germinates but sparingly even in 

 pots ; though perhaps that is because the usual quality 

 of seed is indifferent. 



There remains lapageria among the highest class for 

 open air, and a friend of mine beautifully flowers both 

 the white and crimson varieties in a snug but shady 

 corner. Napoleon's Bell, as it is called, comes from 

 Chili, and apparently, like the rest of Chilians, can easily 

 have too much sun. The best I have seen out-of-doors 

 are inferior to well-grown, cool-house specimens. 



Such plants as kerria, amelanchier, desmodium, 



