A correspondent recently inquired for the best method of cultivating this pretty plant. A contributor to Gardening World thus responds :

"This elegant South African evergreen climber may been seen in all its grandeur in the large conservatory at Clifton Hall, Nottingham. Mr. Anderson, the able gardener there, procured the original plant six years ago, and after growing it in a pot for about two years, decided to make up a border for it at the bottom of the back wall of the conservatory. The border is composed principally of lumpy sandy loam, a little peat, leaf soil, and a dash of sand. This exceedingly handsome specimen seems to thoroughly enjoy this compost, as well as the shady position it occupies behind, or partly under, large specimen palms and tree ferns, etc. As a matter of curiosity, I ran the tape round it about one foot from the ground, and found it to measure 6 feet in circumference, and about 30 feet high by 12 feet wide, trained up the back wall to the top of the house, and its pretty feathery growths are not only ornamental to the conservatory, but most useful to cut for table decoration. Mr. Anderson does not go in for hand-fuls, but generally for a bushel basket full at a time, and, to fully prove its lasting qualities, I enclose a specimen which I have had in a cold room for the last three weeks without water.

I have omitted to say there are two of those fine plants in the conservatory, which is a fair-sized house, measuring 127 feet long by about 40 feet wide, and both plants seem to enjoy their positions immensely".