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CALYSTEGIA PUBESCENS. 
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CALYSTEGIA PUBESCENS. 
Any addition to onr hardy-flowering climbing plants, must 
ever possess considerable interest, and in this we have the rare 
combination of rapid growth, an abundant display of flowers, and 
very easy management. The original plant was introduced a 
couple or three years since from China by the Horticultural 
Society, through their collector Mr. Fortune; and from the 
amazing increase which may be effected through cuttings of the 
roots, it has already become plentiful among cultivators of such 
things. My first plants were obtained in the early part of the 
summer of 1847, and growing them on through the remainder of 
that season in pots trained to a trellis, and kept in the greenhouse, 
I had the pleasure of seeing them bloom tolerably abundant. In 
winter the stems died away, and the pots were kept in a shed till 
the following spring, when on shaking out the mould, I found an 
abundance of strong white stolons, or creeping roots, which all 
gave promise of making plants. These were separated and potted 
into a rather strong soil, composed chiefly of loam and leafmould; 
they were set to grow in a cold pit, and with ordinary attention 
had made from two to four strong shoots each by the end of 
April. Some were then shifted into large pots to be grown on 
wires as specimens, and the remainder, in about a fortnight, were 
transferred to the open ground, where, planted in a south border, 
they had an opportunity of being attached to some trellis ; those 
in pots were continued in the greenhouse, and with an occasional 
syringing to keep down insects, which I found better than 
fumigating, they grew with much vigour; the others being placed 
out just as the hot weather of May began, experienced a con¬ 
siderable check during that period, but their after progress was 
of a nature to compensate for any loss of time; they grew with 
great vigour, and by the middle of June, had nearly caught their 
fellows in the greenhouse. At the present time both are growing 
and flowering finely. The individual blooms are rather ragged, 
or, at least,,are very loose in the arrangement of their petals, but 
the colour is a delicate light rose, and being produced from the 
axil of every leaf, on the whole the plant is very effective. A 
good strong plant seems capable of thoroughly covering at least 
