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flowers in August. It requires support, as it has the pro- 
pensity to attach itself to everything in its neighborhood, 
like the last, by its petioles. 
C. integrifélia.—Entire-leaved——_A handsome, upright 
plant, about two feet high, producing nodding, bell-shap- 
ed, blue flowers, most of the season. 
C. Viticélla is a much admired species, with blue flow- 
ers, which are produced from June to September, on long 
peduncles from the axils of the leaves; rather bell-shaped, 
and nodding. It is a climber, growing from eight to ten 
feet in a season, dying down to the ground, in this climate, 
but otherwise hardy. There is a variety with double 
flowers, others with brownish-red flowers, and several im- 
proved varieties. 
C. Flammula is a luxuriant climber, having clusters of 
small white fragrant flowers, in August and September. 
C. flérida has large white flowers; like the last, a luxuri- 
ant climber. There is a variety with double flowers. 
C. Siebéldii.—Siebold’s Virgin’s Bower.—This magni- 
ficent plant is said to be a variety of C. florida, and, till 
lately, treated as a green-house plant, but it has proved 
as hardy as the other sorts. The flowers are three or four 
inches in diameter, the outer sepals, or petals, a creamy 
white, filled up with others, disposed in many series, the 
groundwork of the petals is white, suffused with a rich 
purple. No plant possesses a stronger claim to a place in 
the flower-garden, from its graceful habit, and from the 
size and beauty of its blossoms.. 
The plant thrives best in a mixture of loam and peat, 
and is increased by layers. It was introduced by Dr. 
Siebold, from Japan, a few years since. I have kept it 
two winters, by covering it lightly with coarse manure. 
C. azurea grandifiora, or Great-flowering Blue Virgin’s 
Bower, has still larger flowers than the variety Sieboldiz. 
