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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[August, 
species hitherto unilescribed, and in appending 
to it the name of Mr. Thomson, by whom 
it was recently brought into notice. It will 
be a welcome addition to our climbers for the 
roofs of stoves and warm conservatories, and 
is wonderfully effective, we are told, when 
draping the rafters of a structure suitable for 
it. The plant, which is a very free grower, is 
clothed with ternate leaves, having fleshy 
glabrous stalked obovate-oblong acuminate 
IPOMCEA THOMSONIANA. 
T page 93 of our volume for 1883 
we referred to this fine novelty under 
the name of Ijmncea llorsfallia: alba, 
it having been at first taken for a 
white variety of that beautiful stove climber. 
A closer examination of the plant, however, 
showed diflerences sufficiently important to 
justify Dr. Masters in deciding that it was a 
