200 TECOMA JASMINOIDES. 
climber, of an exuberant mode of growth, and with noble evergreen foliage. We 
trust it will therefore no longer remain a scarce object, but contribute to the gaiety 
of every greenhouse which is large enough to admit of its being grown to its proper 
size. Most extensive nurserymen have, we should think, saleable plants, though 
we have only noticed it in the greenhouse of Messrs. Chandler, Vauxhall. 
But all plants of the kind we are now describing, however beautiful their 
flowers may be, can so rarely be induced to develop them, that they are very 
frequently discarded from this cause. We have no hesitation in saying, that in the 
majority of such cases the culturist alone should be blamed. Without directing a 
thought to the roots, on which, of course, the condition of the plant entirely depends, 
the branches are pruned, and as fast as new ones succeed, these are likewise shortened 
or removed. The result of such treatment, when pursued a independently of attention 
to other circumstances, is never satisfactory. 
Mr. Webster, following the course which philosophy and experience suggest, 
confines the roots of this plant in a small pot, and by thus effectually checking its 
growth, as well as providing against an undue lodgment of fluids in the soil, easily 
surmounts the difficulties above hinted at, and brings his plants into flower as soon 
as they have attained a productive age. In this simple fact lies the whole art of flower- 
ing plants perfectly ; and nothing can be more prejudicial to a species like the present, 
which is constitutionally disposed to grow exuberantly, than planting it in a bed or 
border, where its supplies of fluid cannot be completely controlled, and its roots 
judiciously limited. 
As it produces a great number of lateral shoots, by taking off these at a proper 
period, and tending them carefully, according to the general mode of managing 
cuttings, any quantity of young plants can with the greatest facility be struck. 
Perhaps, likewise, the seeds may occasionally be matured, but these should be dis- 
regarded, except for hybridization, since plants raised from cuttings invariably flower 
sooner. 
Tecoma is a contraction of Tecomaxochitl, the Mexican name for one of the 
species. The genus comprises many plants that formerly belonged to Bignonia, to 
which, indeed, it is closely related. 
