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COBEA SCANDENS. 



I IKE many other of our cultivated floral plants, this one hails from 

 I f> Mexico, and has been known since Barnabas Cobo spent fifty years 

 of his life as a Jesuit missionary in Mexico and Peru. He being also 

 quite a naturalist, this mteresting plant was named in his honor. At one 

 time It was rarely met with out ot conservatories, where it formed a strong 

 growing climber, but it being found to be equally well as a summer climber 

 out of doors, it has for a good many years now been used for that purpose. 

 There is a variegated variety quite showy in its foliage, which can only be 

 raised from cuttings, but the common kind can be raised both ways, cutting 



or seed, with equal facility. The general 

 method, as much the most simple, is by seed, 

 which if sown in the greenhouse on a hotbed 

 early in the spring, gets good-sized plants by 

 now or planting time. It is one of the most 

 rampant growers under favorable auspices, 

 hence can be used safely where a large space 

 is designed to be covered. The flowers are 

 large cups or campanulaceous in shape, and 

 come freely all the summer long. 



The seeds are of some size, thin and flat, 

 and gardeners have found that they grow the 

 covered with about one-fourth inch of soil. 

 For present planting, however, it is better to purchase plants of some florist 

 than to depend upon seed at this late season. 



most freely set on edge and 



MAKING AN HERBARIUM. 



A PLEASANT way for young people to improve themselves in botany 



sf\ during the summer vacation is to make an herbarium or a collection 



of pressed wild flowers. As it requires considerable skill and patience 



to dry these fragile blossoms of the woods and fields, the points to attend to 



