December 6, 1893.] 



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505 



Fig. 74. — Puei'aria Thunbergiana, in Germantown, Pennsylvania. — See page 504. 



plant illustrated on this page is in the Meehan nurseries 

 at Germantown, Pennsylvania, where it climbs over an 

 old Cedar-tree. It was propagated from one of the plants 

 brought to the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia by the 



Japanese, who used them where they wanted a rapid 

 growth of foliage. At first this plant died back to the 

 ground every year, but a few woody stems now survive 

 the winter and flowering branches grow from these. 



