November 24, 1897. 



Garden and Forest. 



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flowers, white when they first open and of a lovely gold Kew, where it first fruited three years ago. It has long, 

 when far spent. It flowers on last year's wood. " There quick-growing, angular climbing stems, which attain a 

 is evidently some mistake with regard to the color of the length of twenty or thirty feet before flowering, and they 



Fig. 5S. — Prunus Pseudo-cerasus. — See page 462. 



flowers. I hope to hear of its flowering shortly in Cali- bear numerous large palmatcly lobed, smooth, shining 



fornia. dark green leaves and one-flowered axillary peduncles. 



Momordica mixta. — There are three fine fruits of this The male and female flowers are borne on separate 



splendid tropical gourd on a plant in one of the stoves at plants, the male flowers being about three inches 



