I first saw this in bloom in Col. Marshall P. Wilder's garden at Dorchester, Mass., some years ago. The plant was running up the stem of a living pear tree ivy-fashion. Since then I have seen it in bloom several times. The inflorescence is not very beautiful but the large masses are very striking and in quantity ornamental. But is not this the true Climbing Hydrangea and not the Schizophragma hydrangeoides? What does Mr. Thomas Hogg say? The plant is very hardy, rather slow-growing at first, and I find it must be several years old before it attempts to bloom.