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PB ACTIO AL GUIDE TO GARDEN PLANTS calystegia 



alba, white. Seeds of all can be obtained 

 separate or mixed. A rare variety called 

 aurea superba has been offered, and also 

 one called cupan/ia/na. 

 Culture dc. as above. 



I. versicolor (Mima lobata). — A 

 charming annual climber, native of S. 

 Mexico, with 3-lobed leaves, heart-shaped 

 at the base. Flowers in summer, bright 

 rosy-crimson at first, changing to orange 

 and then yellow, in one-sided curved 

 racemes ; coroUa oblong- cylindrical, 5- 

 toothed ; stamens and style much pro- 

 truding. 



Culture dc. as above. In warm 

 sunny places this remarkable species 

 may be grown out of doors, and utilised 

 in the same way as the other Ipomseas. 

 Seeds may be sown in heat in February 

 and March, and by the end of May or 

 June the seedlings may be transplanted 

 to the open ground. 



Other species of Ipomsea worth grow- 

 ing as annuals like the above are bona- 

 nox, with white flowers which open at 

 night ; Leari, intense bright blue ; 

 Quamioclit, scarlet and white varieties ; 

 and rubro-cmrulea or Sooheri, which is 

 white in bud, with the limb of a rich lake, 

 changing to beautiful purple-blue when 

 fuUy expanded. 



CALYSTEGIA (Beakbind). — A 

 genus of 7 or 8 trailing or climbing, 

 smooth or scarcely downy herbs, with 

 alternate, entire or rarely pahnately 

 lobed leaves. Flowers white, rose, or 

 violet, on 1 -flowered axillary stalks. 

 Bracts 2, large, persistent, enclosing the 

 calyx. Sepals nearly equal, or the inner 

 ones much smaller. Corolla bell- or 

 funnel-shaped, with a plaited 5-angled or 

 obscurely 5-lobed limb. Stamens not 

 protruding. Ovary 1-celled or imperfectly 

 2-ceUed. Style thread-like, distinctly 

 2-lobed, broad. 



Culture and Propagation. — All the 

 species flourish in ordinary garden soil, 

 and may be increased by seeds sown in 

 the open border in autumn or spring ; or 

 by division of the roots in spring. Like 

 the Ipomseas and Convolvulus they are 

 useful for trailing over trellises, arbours &c. 



C. dahurica. — A showy Caucasian 

 climber, with perennial roots and smooth 

 or hairy, oblong heart-shaped leaves, 

 having the edges and under nerves more 

 or less tomentose. Flowers in July, rosy- 



purple ; sepals lance-shaped acute, the 2 

 outer ones largest, enclosed in broadly 

 ovate, acute bracts. Flower stalks 4- 

 angled, downy. 



Culture dc. as above. Increased by 

 dividing the creeping roots. May be used 

 for trellises &c., like the Ipomaeas. 



C. pubescens R. pi. — The single- 

 flowered form of this Chinese plant is not 

 known in cultivation. The double-flowered 

 one has hastate, downy leaves and flowers 

 during the summer and autumn months, 

 on stalks 2|-3J in. long. Corolla 2-3 in. 

 across, perfectly double, with long narrow 

 wavy and reflexed petals, at first of a soft 

 rose or flesh colour, afterwards bright rose. 

 Bracts oval, oUiated, with reflexed edges. 



Culture dc. as above. This elegant 

 climbing perennial may be utilised for 

 the ornamentation of walls, arbours, and 

 trellises &c. Although a vigorous grower, 

 it likes a rich soU and a warm sunny 

 position, and may be increased by divid- 

 ing, in spring, its long creeping roots, 

 which are white and very brittle. It may 

 also be used for traUiug over ledges of 

 rockwork, old ruins, tree stumps, or for 

 hanging baskets, pots &c. 



C. sepium (C. infiata; C. sylvatica). 

 Common Bearbind. — Although very often 

 and perhaps usually a very troublesome 

 weed, this is a remarkably handsome 

 plant, and there are situations in which it 

 is far from being out of place, such as 

 among old hedges and thickets, which it 

 beautifies with its large white or pink 

 flowers dm-ing the summer and autumn 

 months. Leaves membranous, 8-5 in. 

 long, hastate or sagittate, very acute, with 

 basal lobes, blunt or truncate. Flowers 

 2 in. across, solitary, on 4-angl8d stalks. 

 Bracts heart-shaped, keeled, acute, longer 

 than the calyx. A North American va- 

 riety called incarnata has rosy flowers. 



Culture dc. as above. 



C. Soldanella. — A native of our sandy 

 seashores, with extensively running, 

 slender rootstocks, and rarely twining, 

 trailing stems 6-12 in. long. Leaves ^-1^ 

 in. across, roundish or Iddney-shaped, 

 fleshy, usually broader than long, with 

 stalks 1-3 in. long. Flowers from June 

 to August, 1-1^ in. across, pale purple or 

 pinli, with yellowish folds, solitary on 

 4-winged stalks. Bracts broadly oblong, 

 blunt, usually a little shorter than the 

 calyx. Also known as Convolvulus. 



