By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 



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given to Mr. Richardson, gardener to Lord Tanker- 

 ville, at Walton on Thames, by whom, as well as at 

 Ottershaw, the plants were so well treated, that they soon 

 produced fruit abundantly. The seeds and cuttings, by 

 either of which it is easily propagated, were soon distributed 

 to various gardeners. John Aiton, Esq. of Windsor, re- 

 ceived a plant from Mr. Richardson, three years since, 

 which did well, and has fruited in the Royal gardens at 

 Cumberland Lodge. John Simpson, Esq. of Fairlawn, near 

 Seven Oaks, to whom the Society is indebted for the first 

 specimens of the fruit, which were exhibited at its meetings, 

 purchased a plant from Messrs. Colvill, in the King's Road, 

 in May, 1814 ; and, under the impression that it was one of the 

 West India Passifloras, put it into his stove, where it grew vi- 

 gorously, and bore large quantities of fruit. My account of 

 the cultivation of the plant is principally derived from the 

 information which Mr. Simpson obligingly gave me, when 

 I called at Fairlawn, in November last, to satisfy myself on 

 the subject, by my own personal observation. To Mr. 

 Richardson, and to Mr. John Aiton, I am also in- 

 debted, for information relative to the plant, and its treat- 

 ment. The stem, after a year or two, grows thick and 

 woody ; the shoots are rounded, hollow, and green, bearing 

 tendrils of a moderate length. The leaves are of a dark 

 sinning green, entirely devoid of pubescence, deeply divided 

 into three lobes, of which the centre one is the largest, and, 

 when the plant is strong, they are of considerable size ; the 

 petioles bear two small green glands, situated just below the 

 origin of the leaf. The flowers cannot be reckoned particu- 

 larly handsome ; they come out of the axillae of the leaves, 



