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Duchess oi Teck, white ; Fairy Queen, pale 

 flesh with darker marks ; Grand Duchess, 

 pale lilac ; Lady Caroline Neville, pale 

 lavender ; Lord Neville, plum ; Mrs. Hope, 

 mauve ; Robert Hanbury, bluish-violet. 



Jackmanii. Alexandra, violet-blue ; Earl 

 of Beaconsfield, purple ; Gipsy Queen, 



A pretty climbing shrub, S( 



jasminoides. 



violet-purple ; Jackmanii alba, white ; J. 

 rubra, red ; J. superba, purple ; Madame 

 Baron Veillard, lilac-rose ; Madame Edouard 

 Andre, carmine ; Snow White, white ; Star 

 of India, violet. 



Viticella. Ascotensis, violet ;" alba, white; 

 grandiflora, red ; rubra, red ; Madame 

 Grange, crimson-violet. 



Other Kinds. Amongst others it is 

 possible that the best known exotic one 

 is C. montana, a strong - growing white- 



flowered plant from China and the Hima- 

 layas. It is represented by large plants in 

 many parts of the Midlands and south. A 

 variety with red flowers, called rubens, may 

 also be procured. This is one of the most 

 effective of many new shrubs, and should be 

 grown as a companion to the type. Pruning 

 must not be done until the 

 flowers have fallen. C. alpina 

 is a very pretty April- flower- 

 ing plant. Its blossoms are 

 mauve-coloured, but there are 

 forms with both white and 

 reddish flowers. No regular 

 pruning is required. C. cam- 

 paniflora is a Portuguese 

 species with pretty small 

 white lilac - tinged flowers. 

 Being a vigorous grower it is 

 well suited for wild garden- 

 ing. C. Flammula is a free- 

 flowering, fragrant white- 

 blossomed species which blooms 

 in autumn. Its variety rubro- 

 marginata is also effective 

 owing to its flowers being 

 margined with rose. C. grata, 

 a Himalayan plant, is useful 

 by reason of its blossoms 

 appearing in September. C. 

 orientalis bears pretty pale 

 yellow flowers, but is eclipsed 

 in beauty by its larger golden- 

 flowered variety tangutica. C. 

 Vitalba, the common English 

 Traveller's Joy, is frequently 

 planted for a wild or natural 

 effect. It grows with con- 

 siderable vigour, and quickly 

 covers an extensive area. 



Eccremocarpus scaber. 

 This plant can only be called, 

 at the best, a sub-shrub, whilst very 

 frequently it is treated as a herbaceous 

 perennial, and sometimes as an annual. 

 The bases of the stems, however, remain 

 year after year in districts where the winter 

 is not severe and the dead ends of the 

 branches are pruned down annually. The 

 tubular scarlet and gold flowers are borne 

 freely throughout summer. 



Hedera (Ivy). This group is well known 

 on account of the Common Ivy, H. Helix. 



