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be one of the most hardy as well as the 

 most splendid of all the species of these 

 plants, that have yet been introduced into 

 this country. In its native country the 

 Bignonia radicans fixes itself to the forest- 

 trees in a similar manner to the European 

 ivy, putting out little fibrous roots at every 

 joint, from whence the trivial name of 

 radicans 



In this country it is generally planted 

 against a wall, where it strikes into the mor- 

 tar of the joints so strongly as to support the 

 branches as firmly as the strongest nails can 

 do, although it sometimes reaches to the 

 height of forty or fifty feet. The leaves are 

 produced opposite at every joint, and are 

 composed of four pairs of leaflets, terminated 

 by an odd one, similar to those of the ash 

 tree, but of a much richer green. The 

 flowers have a cylindrical corolla divided 

 into five lips of equal size, of a colour simi- 

 lar to carmine laid over an orange ground. 

 The toothed calyx is persisting and of the 

 same rich colour as the corolla ; and as the 

 flower buds are progressive, the branches 

 have a display of blossoms from July to 

 the beginning of November, for as some of 

 the corollas drop off others open in succes- 

 sion. 



