84. VINES 
The seeds of the eccremocarpus should be 
started in the greenhouse during March and the 
young plants potted on and never allowed to 
become pot-bound. The young plants should 
not be set out before the middle of June in the 
North, as they need a warm, sunny location. 
From seeds sown in the open ground, but little 
success can be had; the vine requires abundant 
heat, and by the time it is warm enough to 
sow the seeds out of doors (June), the time re- 
maining for growth is too brief to allow the 
plant to develop. 
A vine often treated as a greenhouse subject, 
from which satisfying results are obtainable, is 
the maurandia (Maurandia Barclaiana). The 
flowers of this delicate vine are varied — rose, 
white, purple, or blue. It needs a little atten- 
tion and a good support to enable it to run up to 
ten feet, as it is a rather frail climber, clinging by 
twisting its leaves and petioles around the support. 
The leaves are thickly set and sharply incised, 
and the whole plant is attractive. For the best 
results, sow the seed in the greenhouse about 
March I. 
A near relative of the maurandia, which name 
it formerly bore, is the climbing snapdragon 
(Antirrhinum maurandioides). It is almost iden- 
