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and easy of increase, it has become very generally adopted. Our 
plate, though an accurate representation of so much of the plant 
as it will contain, fails to convey an idea of the beauty of an 
entire specimen; for this is one of those plants, which, failing 
to arrest attention by the splendour of their individual blossoms, 
yet excite our strongest admiration when viewed as a whole,— 
what a single flower fails to secure, forty 6r fifty collected almost 
to touching may claim as a right. 
We have been anticipated in any cultural remarks applicable 
to this plant by a Correspondent, with whose directions our ex¬ 
perience entirely coincides. We find the plant to grow luxuriantly 
in rich loamy soil, in the open air, where also it flowers with the 
greatest possible freedom, and throughout the summer is among 
the gayest climbers we possess. Nor can there be much doubt 
of the perfect hardihood of the plant, when we consider both the 
nature of the plant, and that of the climate from whence it was 
obtained. The annual character of the stems, however, afford 
every facility for protecting the roots in winter, even should they 
require it, and we may consequently include it among the best 
means yet known for ornamenting walls, arbours, or trellis in 
the open air, through the summer months. Cultivated as a pot- 
plant, and trained to a wire frame, it is by no means inferior to 
many which entail a much greater amount of care and skill, as 
its delicately tinted blossoms are produced so copiously, as to 
render the plant conspicuous in whatever position it is seen. 
But, in our opinion, the station in which it will prove pre¬ 
eminently useful is, for covering the framework of balconies. 
Those who have ever had occasion to attempt the furnishing of 
such places with flowering plants, will know the trouble inva¬ 
riably experienced to get any plants to thrive that are sufficiently 
large in their growth to make an appearance before they are de¬ 
stroyed by heat unmitigated and drought extreme, especially 
when the best supply of food that can be offered the roots is 
contained in a narrow box. In such a place, however, we enter¬ 
tain but little doubt of the C. puhescens succeeding ; and, in the 
event of this idea proving correct, an invaluable addition will be 
made to our means of ornamenting the fronts of suburban 
residences. 
Convolvulus. This is an extensive genus of some beauty, con- 
