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PASSIFLORA KERMESINA. 
growing again, raise it, if convenient, out of the box, and trim its roots, and after 
having put in a supply of new soil, replace it ; if not convenient to raise it, take out 
as much of the old soil as can be got round the sides of the box, reduce the ball 
about one third, and add a fresh supply of loam. Abundance of water is also 
requisite during the flowering season, or the fruit will set very shy, even with im- 
pregnation. Fruit are produced from the end of June till Christmas. This, in 
connexion with edulis, alata , ligularis, incarnata , maliformis , and lancifolia , are 
grown for their fruit in America, where they are known by the name of Grana- 
dillas, because the fruit bears a resemblance to the Granada, or Pomegranate. 
Passifloras are sometimes rather shy at setting their fruit ; this may be reme- 
died by impregnating with the pollen of other species in preference to their own 
pollen. 
The quadrangular is is much cultivated in the West Indies as an ornamental 
climber, especially for arbours and covered walks. The fruit is somewhat watery, 
rather fragrant, with a grateful taste, betwixt sweet and acid : the bloom is very 
large and handsome. It is frequently grafted upon the ccerulea in France, where 
it flowers and fruits the same season it is grafted, sometimes when not above two 
feet high. 
The alata will grow under the floor of a hot-house, and in other situations 
where most of the stove species will not live ; only it is necessary to keep the roots 
quite moist. The racemosa will bear fruit if impregnated with the pollen of alata , 
or other species, but shows no disposition to do so when confined to its own 
stamens. 
The maliformis is plentiful in the woods of Jamaica, where its fruit forms a 
principal part of the food of wild swine. The hard shell-like rind is manufactured 
into snuff-boxes and toys of various kinds. 
The vespertilio is remarkable for its hours of flowering, being from 10 o’clock at 
night till towards 7 or 8 o’clock the next morning. The fietida is called in the 
West Indies, “ Love in a Mist,” because its unexpanded flowers are curiously en- 
closed in a feathered involucre. Of rubra an intoxicating drink is made, which is 
said to be a safe narcotic. 
All the stove species require cutting in more or less every autumn. 
