This is a most charming plant, and no conservatory or greenhouse where climbers are grown should be without it. It is a most rapid growing plant, covering an immense surface, and ramifying into an astonishing number of strong, healthy branches. Where this plant is trained to the roof of a house for shade, and where it is merely fastened beneath the rafters in a general way, it should always be supported by wires running parallel to the direction in which it grows, and by tying or nailing it up according to the usual practice. Its twining habit renders it desirable that it should have something round which the branches can coil, and stout wire or slender rods afford this desideratum. When the blossoms commence expanding, they require to be screened from the more powerful rays of the sun. Opening in the morning, they change color and fade long before midday if exposed to the solar rays, but when they are brought below the foliage, the latter is commonly sufficient to protect them. It succeeds well in a soil composed of equal parts rich turfy loam and leaf-mould, and requires a good share of root room.

I. mutablis and 7. pulchella are also two desirable species, requiring somewhat similar treatment.- Gar-dener.