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THE FLOWER GARDEN. 
with evergreen foliage and flowers, scarlet outside and yellow 
within. This flowers in summer, but is only hardy in mild 
districts. Last of all is L. tatarica, a native of Tartary. This 
is a very hardy and free-growing climber, bearing rosy flowers 
in spring. We now come to the bush or non-climbing kinds. 
Of these the Fly Honeysuckle (L. Xylosteum), with creamy- 
white flowers, succeeded by scarlet berries, is the best known. 
There are varieties of it with white, black and yellow berries. 
This kind is suited for growing in the mixed shrubbery. L. 
Alberti, a native of Turkestan, grows 2 to 3ft. high, forms a 
neat bush, and bears fragrant rosy-lilac flowers in June. There 
are many other species, but those named are the best. In 
growing the climbing species bear in mind that they love a 
deep, rich soil and plenty of sunshine to encourage them to 
grow and flower freely. Attention must also be paid to 
pruning. In February the old and weak wood should be freely 
thinned out, leaving the young shoots (last year’s growth) un- 
touched. The bush kinds only need to have dead or weak 
growths cut away. Plant in autumn. Increased by cuttings of 
shoots inserted in sandy soil in a cold frame in autumn ; also 
by layering shoots in summer. 
Lycium (Box Thorn). — Two species of this genus are 
grown in gardens as climbers for walls and porches. They 
belong to the Potato order (Solanaceae). The best-known 
species is the “Duke of Argyle’s Tea Tree” (L. halimifolium), 
better known as L. europaeum. This bears violet-red flowers 
in summer, is of more or less erect growth, and furnished with 
spines. Is often seen covering porches, walls and fences and 
growing in garden hedges. A native of S. Europe. The other 
species is L. chinense (Box Thorn), a native of N. Asia, with 
slender stems and purplish or violet-red flowers. Both 
species bear orange-red or scarlet berries in autumn. These 
are suitable for covering arches, pergolas, or fences quickly. 
They are deciduous. Plant in autumn in ordinary soil. In 
creased by suckers removed in autumn ; by cuttings inserted 
in sandy soil in a cold frame in October ; by layering in 
summer. 
Maurandia. — A genus of half-hardy climbing peren- 
nials, belonging to the Nat. Ord. Scrophulariaceae, and natives 
of Mexico. M. barclayana bears pretty white and blue flowers 
in summer, and grows 3 to 5ft. high. M. erubescens (Syn. 
Lophospermum erubescens) has rosy-white flowers borne in 
summer; and M. scandens (Syn. Lophospernum scandens) 
purplish-violet flowers borne in summer. The two latter grow 
5 to 6ft. high. These pretty climbers are suitable for covering 
sunny trellises or low walls in summer, also for planting in 
