PLANTS WORTH GROWING 179 
decandra throws up long racemes of white flowers 
followed by closely packed purple berries, the juice 
of which is red as blood. A good clump makes a 
conspicuous feature in the border. 
Podophyllum. — A genus of rich-looking plants 
with handsomely veined and marbled foliage out- 
spreading like umbrellas. The flowers are creamy 
white, and are followed by globular fruits of rich 
bright colour. The Podophyllums love moisture 
and succeed best in boggy situations. 
Polygonum. — A large and varied genus that 
includes coarse rampant-growing roots suitable only 
for the wild garden or shrubbery, sweet little trailers 
for the rock garden or for carpeting the ground 
under trees, and some bushy erect, growing plants of 
convenient size for bedding, where their fresh-looking 
foliage and feathery tassels of bloom make quite a 
fine show. The best of all, however, is Polygonum 
Baldschuanicum, one of the grandest of all our 
climbing plants. 
Its growth is very rapid, and its flowers, silvery 
white with a flush of pink, are produced in waving 
cloud-like masses that envelop the whole plant. 
It sometimes happens that a plant will make much 
growth, but produce no bloom. This is generally 
attributed to propagating from ' blind ' stock, but 
whatever truth there may be in the blind plant 
theory, there is certainly something to be said in 
regard to pruning as a means of stimulating produc- 
tion of bloom. A plant cut back in a haphazard 
