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Some Climbing, Twining, and Wall Plants for British 

 Gardens. — There is scarcely any limit to the different uses that 

 plants of a climbing or rambling habit may be put to, for many of 

 them are extremely beautiful when employed for the draping of 

 arbours, pergolas, or even living trees, while for hiding unsightly 

 fences or clothing sloping banks, the more vigorous kinds are well 

 adapted. For draping buildings or furnishing walls there is a great 

 variety of plants, either quite hardy or sufficiently tender to need the 

 protection of a wall in order to pass through an ordinary winter 

 without much injury. The majority of those enumerated below are 

 hardy enough to succeed as wall plants in any part of England, while 

 a few are adapted only for particularly mild districts. 



Those plajits marked with an asterisk are either half-hardy or require some 

 slight protection in cold districts or special care in some cases. 



Lycium 



Magnolia 



*Mandevilla 



Maurandya 



Menispermum 



*Mitraria 



Muhlenbeckia 



Myrtus 



Paliurus 



*Passiflora 



Periploca 



Physianthus 



Piptanthus 



*Pittosporum 



Pueraria 



*Punica 



Rhus 



Ribes 



Rosea 



Rubus 



Schizandra 



Solanum 



Schizophragma 



Smilax 



*Sollya 



Stauntonia 



Stuartia 



*Thunbergia 



Tropaeolum 



Vitis (now including 



Ampelopsis) 

 Wistaria 

 Xanthoceras 



Akebia quinata. 



