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PASSIFLORA AMABILIS. 
rows are two feet apart. lie will also plant 
a few potatoes, small tubers, and whole are 
better than cut pieces ; these should be a foot 
apart and the rows two feet apart ; they 
should be planted six inches deep. Earthing 
up the crops, especially celery, must not be 
forgotten on fine dry days. A few carrots, 
turnips, cabbages, leeks, cauliflowers, savoys, 
Brussels sprouts ; and, if the weather is good, 
in March towards the end, full crops may 
be got in. All these things you may retain 
in your memory, or if you fear that, make 
your notes. All these two months the gar- 
dener is looking well to his hot-beds, cutting 
in due season rhubarb, sea kale, asparagus, 
and cucumbers. The greenhouse is beginning 
to look showy, the camellias are coming into 
full bloom, many of the Botany Bay plants 
are about to flower, and many subjects that 
will be of great use in furnishing the conser- 
vatory, which will by-and-by be worth a visit. 
The hot-house will also be worthy of attention ; 
at present it is merely bringing some of the or- 
dinary plants a little forwarder than they would 
be, if left out of doors. These things, however, 
we shall see more about in our future strolls. 
PASSIFLORA 
AMABILIS. 
Passiflora amabili 
Hooker (white crowned or 
lovely Passion - flower). — 
Passifloraceas. 
The history of this lovely 
Passion-flower, for so it 
may be truly designated, is 
obscure, and whether it be 
a wild species introduced 
artificially within the cultu- 
rist's domain, or has sprung 
up under cultivation — a 
garden hybrid, is, as far as 
we can learn, matter of un- 
certainty. This, however, 
though it may concern the 
botanist in some degree, is of very little mo- 
ment to the cultivator, to whom, though we 
cannot present an interesting chapter on its 
history and introduction, we venture to re- 
commend the subject of our notice as deserv- 
ing a place in every select collection of stove 
plants. 
We say stove plants, because the only ex- 
perience had of its growth in this country 
seems to have been under the condition of a 
tender kind, and the circumstances of a tro- 
pical climate. It is here that a knowledge of 
the nature of its origin acquires most practical 
importance ; for whilst, if its origin were well 
understood, its proper place in our artificial 
climates might at once be assigned with tole- 
rable certainty, ignorance of this matter may 
render it necessary to institute experiments 
in order to acquire this knowledge ; and expe- 
riment instituted in the case of new plants is 
