The plants thus acquired, Mr. Barclay submitted 
to judicious management; and their increase enabled 
him to distribute them from zone to zone, and from 
hemisphere to hemisphere. Thus he gave to dis- 
tant countries, and to his own, the advantages which 
claim for him the gratitude of mankind. 
The Maurandia Barclayiana is a most splendid 
addition to our ornamental climbers; and if this 
were the only plant for which English botanists had 
to be grateful to its introducer, the debt could not 
be deemed inconsiderable. It grows with great 
luxuriance in the border, during summer, and may 
be trained up a wall, or on trellis work. In the ab- 
sence of these advantages, for its support and dis- 
play, it may be very effectually cultivated amongst 
other herbaceous plants, or low flowering shrubs, 
simply by training it up common pea-sticks; on 
which it will luxuriate and produce its wonted pro- 
fusion of brilliant blue flowers, till prevented by the 
severe weather of autumn. 
Its seeds should be sown early in the spring, in a 
hotbed, and the young plants be forwarded by being 
potted, singly, in rich soil. They should be gradu- 
ally inured to bear the open air, by having free ex- 
posure to it during the day-time. These plants may 
be turned out of the pots, into the open ground, at 
the end of April, and they will soon grow rapidly, 
and flower freely. If house protection can be af- 
forded young plants of the Maurandia Barclayiana, 
during winter, they will acquire strength, and on 
being turned into the borders in April or May, they 
will become stronger, and blossom earlier in the 
summer, than spring seedlings. 
Bot. Reg. 1108. 
