Suggestions. 5 



SUGGESTIONS. 



In Southern California below the frost belt— begonias, primulas, 

 ferns of all kinds, and shade-loving plants thrive in a lath house 

 partially shaded by vines. Most begonias are fine bedding plants 

 in sheltered locations. Begonia rubra is a wonderful grower. It 

 often reaches a hight of fifteen feet 



Best vines for verandas: Bignonias, Tecoma Jasminoides, 

 Campsidium felicifolium, jasmines, and Thunbergia laurifolia. 



Best vines for screens, summer houses and growing in trees: 

 Passifloras, Cobsea, Mandevilla and Ipomceas. 



Don't fail to try Mina lobata, as easily grown as a morning 

 glory, and so beautiful every one 'raves over it.' 



The new Ipomea, 'Heavenly Blue,' a child of Ipomcea Leari 

 and Mina lobata, is indescribably beautiful. 



The large flowering blue stock is extremely pretty. 



Giant Perfection stock is superb, delights all. 



The new seedling fuschia, Gen. Vandever, is worthy of all 

 praise, flowers large and beautiful, a fine climber. 



The perpetual blooming Cyclamen Mt. Blanc is greatly 

 admired, too much cannot be said in its praise. 



Cereus triangularis is a most interesting variety of this gro- 

 tesque family. Grown without support it rambles over the 

 ground, planted near a house it becomes ambitious. A large 

 specimen of this cactus is ten years old. The first four years it 

 contented itself with clambering on the ground and about the 

 lower part of the veranda. Five years ago it commenced to climb, 

 and has now reached the roof of the second story of the house, 

 thirty-five feet from the ground. It has sent out innumerable 

 great triangular branches in every direction, attaching itself by 

 long, white roots, which loosen as the branches become strong 

 and hang like a gray fringe all over the plant. It reaches across 

 the windows on the upper and lower verandas, twists itself under 

 the ceiling for several yards, winds about the railing and has 

 thrown one branch out ten or fifteen feet, which hangs pendulous 

 in a white L,amarque rose near it. The flowers open at 5 p. m. 

 and close at 10 a. m., they measure twelve inches across, are 

 double, creamy white outside, petals yellow, the stems two inches 

 in diameter. This cactus is said to be one of the curiosities of the 

 United States, being the largest of its kind known. 



