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habit, and the size and beauty of its blossoms render 
it an attractive inhabitant of the flower-garden. 
C. fldmmula, sweet-scented virgin's bower, is of very rapid 
growth. Established plants will grow from twenty 
to forty feet in one season, producing at the axils of 
the young shoots, large panicles of small white flowers 
of exquisite fragrance ; the leaves are compound pin- 
nate ; in bloom from July to November, but in Au- 
gust, September, and October, the flowers are in great 
profusion, perfuming the whole garden. This is one 
of the best climbing hardy plants, and ought to have 
a situation in every garden. 
C. montana, mountain virgin-bower, flowers in large clusters, 
very pure white, a strong and rapid grower. 
C. Virgin iCina is of rapid growth, and well adapted for ar- 
bours; flowers, small white in axillary panicles, dioe- 
cious, leaves ternate, segments cordate, acute, coarse- 
ly toothed and lobed, in bloom from June to August. 
A native, and a little fragrant. 
C. crispa, or Bell Clematis, is a native plant of free growth ; 
flowers of a pink colour, in clusters, bell-shaped, the 
points of the petals folding backwards — a little fra- 
grant. There is also a variety having purple flowers. 
C. jibrida plenb is a fine free-flowering plant ; though gene- 
rally considered a shrub, is more herbaceous than 
shrubby ; the flowers are large double white ; in 
growth will not exceed ten feet in one season. 
Glycine frutescens, a beautiful native climbing shrub, known 
in our gardens under that name, but is properly Wis- 
teria frutescens. It has large pendulous branches of 
blue leguminose (pea-like) flowers, blooming from 
May to August; pinnated leaves with nine ovate 
downy leaflets ; grows freely. 
chinensis is given to Wisteria, and is the finest 
climbing shrub of the phaseolius tribe. The flowers 
are light blue, in long nodding, many-flowered, race- 
mose spikes, blooming from May to August, pro- 
fusely ; leaves pinnated, with eleven ovate lanceolate 
silky leaflets, and is of a very rapid growth. It is 
perfectly hardy, withstanding the severity of our win- 
ters without protection. 
Bignbnia crucigera is an evergreen which is very desirable in 
