Crossword-Solution: AKEBIA 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Two recommendable woody twiners of recent distribution are the actinidia and the akebia, both from Japan.

AKEBIA.--"_Akebia quinata_ has flowered here, on an east wall, profusely for the last seventeen years, under the following pruning treatment: Cover the space allotted with the strongest shoots, and when new growth pushes from the eyes or spurs in the spring, do not regulate it, but summer-prune away all superfluous growth before it gets entangled.

Those of _Akebia quinata_ change colour in autumn and assume shades of brownish purple, sometimes touched with maroon.

AKEBIA QUINATA.--A most distinct Japanese creeper with five-lobed leaves and twining stems; although generally grown in a greenhouse, where it flowers in January or February, it is quite hardy in mild sea-shore places, and bears its monoecious flowers in April or May.

The banks were carpeted with lycopodium and primula and the hedges were full of roses, white and yellow jasmine, hawthorn, clematis montana, Akebia lobata—a very curious creeper with wine-coloured blossom, both male and female.