PI. 205. 
PASSION FLOWER IN FULL BLOOM, PASSIFLORA SP., S. P. I. No. 35215. 
Although passion flowers have been grown in the conservatories of Europe for generations 
and their remarkable flowers considered emblems of the Crucifixion, and although at least one 
species (P. edulis) has become of commercial importance in Australia and is even grown for market 
in Scotland, practically no attention has been given to them by Americans. The ease with which 
they can be grown, their productiveness, the existence of so many edible-fruited species, and the 
fact that they hybridize readily would seem to make the field of their exploitation a promising 
one. Photograph (P19576FS) taken by P. H. Dorsett, in greenhouse at Chico, Cal., Field 
Station, May 16, 1916. 
