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JOURXAL OF HORTICULTURE AXD COTTAGE GARDEXER. 
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Mr. Frank Ross, wlio has charge of the Pendell Court Gardens, has | will not injure it. Train it on the glass end of a house up a rafter, or 
obligingly furnished the following cultural particulars :—“The Oxera is along the ridge of the house, say where there is a lantern top, as these 
Fio. 15.-OXERA PCLCHELLA. 
an extremely free-growing shrubby climber, producing 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; indeed, it cannot have too much, even full exposure to the sun 
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 at about 55° to 60°. A 
fair degree of temperature such as I have mentioned is necessary to 
flower ic, although the plant will live through the winter in ordinary 
