. The California horticulturist and floral magazine. Fruit-culture; Gardening. THE. AND FLORAL MAGAZINE. Vol. I. JTTKE, 1874. Ko. 6. PASSIFLOKA (PASSION-VINE.) BY F. A. MILLEE. Nearly all the varieties of the Passion- vine can be grown successfully in the open air; and, considering the beauty of their flowers, it is surprising that so few of them are cultivated here—the old variety of Passiflora coerulea, with here and there a specimen of P. edidis or P. coccinea, being nearly all we see. They are fast-growing climbers, ever- green, and can not fail to give general satisfaction. Several variet
. The California horticulturist and floral magazine. Fruit-culture; Gardening. THE. AND FLORAL MAGAZINE. Vol. I. JTTKE, 1874. Ko. 6. PASSIFLOKA (PASSION-VINE.) BY F. A. MILLEE. Nearly all the varieties of the Passion- vine can be grown successfully in the open air; and, considering the beauty of their flowers, it is surprising that so few of them are cultivated here—the old variety of Passiflora coerulea, with here and there a specimen of P. edidis or P. coccinea, being nearly all we see. They are fast-growing climbers, ever- green, and can not fail to give general satisfaction. Several varieties produce edible fruits, such as P. edulisrP. alata, P. incarnata, P. quadrangularis, etc. As to the origin of the name, I ex- tract from the Treasury of Botany the following interesting paragraph: '' These singular and beautiful plants are chiefly natives of tropical America, a few being indigenous in Asia. The name was applied from the resemblance afforded by the parts of the plant to the instruments of our Lord's Passion and its attendant circumstances. Thus, the three nails—two for the hands, one for the feet—are represented by the stig- mas; the five anthers indicate the five wounds; the rays of glory, or some say the crown of thorns, are represented by Vol. IV.—22. the rays of the 'corona;' the ten parts of the perianth represent the apostles, two of them absent—Peter who denied and Judas who betrayed our Lord; and the wicked hands of His persecutors are seen in the digitate leaves oithe plant, and the scourges in the ; I further note the following remarks from the same author, on the edible fruits which some varieties bear: '' The part that is eaten is either the fleshy axil attached to- the seeds, or the juicy pulp in which they are imbedded. This pulp has an agreeably cool taste in some species, and a sweet mawkish fla- vor in others. In the "West Indies the pulp is sucked through a hole in the rind. Fruits of the G-ranadilla and some oth
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