238 SYLVA FLORIFERA. 



The flowers are produced in large bunches 

 at the end of the shoots of the same year, 

 and the effect is magnificent when the shrub 

 is in full blossom. We have found this 

 species of bignonia easily propagated by 

 layers, or cuttings of the same year's growth, 

 with about an inch of the former year's wood. 

 This plant loves a rich soil, and a south 

 aspect. Whilst young it is frequently injured 

 by the ants, that devour the leaves even 

 to a skeleton, and sometimes destroy the 

 blossoms. 



We have now about sixty species of this 

 genus of plants, most of them eminent for 

 the beauty of their flowers ; but as the ma- 

 jority of them belong to tropical regions, we 

 must not hope to see them mixing with the 

 plants of the shrubbery. 



The welted trumpet flower, bignonia ve- 

 nusta, which blossomed in the autumn of 

 1817, in the hot-house of Lord Liverpool, at 

 Combe Wood, was raised from seed received 

 from the Brazils, by Lady Liverpool ; and as 

 it is a native of the same neighbourhood as 

 the common blue passion flower, we are not 

 without the hope that it will be found 

 equally hardy when it becomes enured to our 

 climate. 



