January 1"*, 1895- 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
33 
OXERA PULCHELLA. 
A COBEESPONDENT writes seeking information about Oxera 
pulchella, which has been recommended to him aa a climber for the 
warm conservatory. It is a plant but seldom seen, though it was 
immense cymes of white flowers usually about Christmas. They are 
freely produced, both axillary and terminally, on the ripened wood. 
Therefore, to secure the proper ripening of the wood the plant must be 
afforded plenty of light; indee:!, it cannot have too much, even full 
exposure to the sun will not injure it. Train it on the glass end of s. 
Fig. 6.—OXERA PULCHELLA. 
exhibited some years ago when we made a sketch of it, and which 
we reproduce (fig. 6) for displaying its character. Writing anent 
0. pulchella, Mr. F. Rose, the exhibitor of the spray shown, said :— 
“ The Oxera is an extremely free-growing shrubby climber, producing 
house up a rafter, or along the ridge of the house, say where there is 
s lantern top, as these are the positions which would suit it best. Our 
plant, both this and last year, had by far the finest flowers on the glass 
end of a cool stove, where the temperature during winter is kept a' 
