4%4 BRECK’S NEW BOOK OF FLOWERS. 
in July and August; small, but verynumerous. It grows 
about ten feet high. On account of its delicate, graceful 
habit, and heath-like flowers and foliage, it makes a desi- 
rable addition to the shrubbery. The German Tamarisk is 
a hardy shrub of similar habits. There are also a number 
of other species and varieties. 
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TECOMA,—TRumPet-FLOWER. 
[Said to have been altered from the Mexican name.] 
The species are trees or shrubs, inhabitants of hot cli- 
mates ; the leaves are opposite, pinnate, ternate, or conju- 
gate; the flowers in panicles, large and handsome, of 
various colors, red, yellow, blue or white, and eminently 
beautiful. The hardy species will grow in almost any 
good soil, and easily propagated by layers or cuttings of 
the root. The species here mentioned were formerly in- 
cluded in the Genus Bignonia. 
Tecoma radicans.—Scarlet Trumpet Flower.—This is 
a magnificent climbing plant, producing large, trumpet- 
shaped, orange-scarlet flowers, of great beauty, from July 
to October. They are produced in clusters; handsome 
in bud, as well as when fully expanded, and when con- 
trasted with the elegant glossy, pinnate foliage, present a 
most splendid sight when trained to a pillar or trellis. 
The plant is a little tender in some locations, and will 
do best to be laid down and covered over, or secured with 
straw or mats. 
T. grandiflora has flowered with us, but it is rather 
tender in this climate. It is a native of China and Japan. 
“In the growth of the wood it is rather more slender, 
and the leaves more coarsely serrated than those of 7. 
radicans. The vine has the same habit of attaching itself 
firmly to a wall, or building of stone, brick or wood, or 
