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of the out-door kinds, in case of accident to their elders 

 from severe frost. Some of the half-hardy kinds are 

 worth turning out against a wail the first week in June, 

 a succession jot another year being" kept np in the same 

 way as ~i:u bed dig- plants. Severs, species bear edible 

 fruits, called grenadillas, which, if not of high flavour, 

 afford welcome refreshment in hot climates ; here (as those 

 on P. edulis) they are simply pretty and curious, hang- 

 ing along the branches like a series of eggs of increasing 

 dimensions. P. ^dc,ir bears, a: borne, brents as 



big as Melons, whose pulp is eaten with sugar ; in our 

 hothouses, it flowers and gives out its perfume better 

 than it fruits. P. jBrasiliana produces flowers often at 

 the extremity of its tendrils. P. maUformis has yellow 

 fruit as big as apples; while that of P. Imirifolw, the 

 size of an err. is in blob esteem. P. jcJ-ur.:. — Irb. 

 violet flowers, hlooms well in the open air, although it 

 may not prove perennial there. P. Seummi likewise 

 may be made the subject of out-door experiment. P. in- 

 carnata has deep-bine flowers, and its crown, or rays, are 

 longer than the corolla. Jf its shoots are frozen in the 

 open ground, it will send forth others, which will flower 

 in the August of the same summer. P. Zoudomi is a 

 stove-plant, with brilliant crimson flowers, deservedly 

 named in compliment to one of our most industrious and 

 able horticultural writers. 



Poly gala specwsa, oppcsitifolioy myrtifolia. laneeolata, 

 Heist eria, &c. — Cape shrubs, with butterfly-shaped 

 flowers of various shades of purple, and with a silky 

 tassel at the tip of the keel. Their foliage is neat and 

 regular : they require a mixture of leaf-mould and sandy 



loam. They will not bear our winters out-doors, which 

 is a great pity: because, in pots, they have a great 

 tendency to become wire-drawn and bare at foot, while 

 the elegance of the flowers renders them desirable to 

 retain either for bouquets or to remain blooming on the 

 plants themselves. Purchase of a nurseryman, rather 

 than be plagued with the slow process of raising tiny 

 cuttings taken from the tips of the shoots, or seeds sown 



