TRICUSPIDARIA 
205 
feet, grown in an open garden of the 
north of Ireland, 100 flowers have been 
counted at once. As a shrub it is of 
rather irregular growth, and left to itself 
the drooping flowers are largely hidden 
by the leaves. To secure the best effect, 
wherever the climate is warm enough 
it should be planted on a high part of 
the rock-gar- 
den, that the 
under side of 
the branches 
with their load 
TRICUSPIDARIA AS A POT-PLANT. 
of flowers may be fully seen. In colder 
places it may be grown against a shady 
wall and the shoots so trained as to dis- 
play their beauty. When under glass a 
house free from frost is all that it needs, 
and, unless the outer air is too dry, a few 
months in the open air during summer 
will do no harm. At Kew it is grown 
on the shady side of the temperate house, 
wherelittle or nodirect sun can ever reach 
it,and good results are got in other places 
in quite a shady aspect. Its culture in 
no way differs from that of other hard- 
wooded plants, thriving either in pots 
as in our engraving, or planted out in 
well-drained peat and loam and in- 
creased from cuttings or layers. Cut- 
tings may either be rooted in heat early 
in spring, or in peat and sand under a 
handlight and in a shady border later 
in the year. Layers of the lower branches 
may be made under flat pieces of stone, 
in the same way as with certain of the 
Daphnes. The plant has not yet reached 
anything like full size with us, 
but fine shrubs of 8 to 10 feet 
are to be found in various parts 
of the country. 
The plant has been unfortu- 
nate as to names. First called 
C ri7to deft dr 071 Hooker ianic?n^ 
this name was changed for that 
of Tt^icuspidaria^ which, how- 
ever fully justified by the three 
tips into which the petals are 
divided, cannot be considered a 
happy choice. It was well fig- 
ured in colours in The Garden 
of November 27, 1880. 
Another species of Tricuspi- 
daria with white flowers has re- 
cently bloomed in the temperate-house 
at Kew, bearing the legend species (?). 
It would appear tobeof somewhat freer 
growth than depende?ts^ having run up 
into a lightly branched shrub of about 
four feet, with leaves shorter and more 
rounded than in the old kind and bell- 
like flowers springing from the leaf-axils 
on the under side of the branches. 
Though similar in shape and structure, 
these are smaller, more open at the 
mouth, and less fleshy in texture. B, 
