XV 
CLIMBING AND TRAILING PLANTS 
4 INES and creepers in great variety may be grown 
to perfection in any house. ‘Their graceful 
habits render them especially useful for home 
decoration. Some may be trained around the 
windows and doors to make rich and _ beautiful 
festoons of leaves and flowers. Many, as the common Ivy, 
will grow in deep shade and require little or no care, others 
enjoy light and sunshine, but are also easy of culture. Boxes 
with neat trelliswork may be employed to form beautiful 
living screens of climbing plants and vines. In selecting 
this class of plants for the house, care should be taken to 
choose varieties that will develop their full beauty in a com- 
paratively short time, as many otherwise valuable kinds flower 
only when large and old, and such varieties are always disap- 
pointing. The following kinds, when grown for the sake of 
their flowers, are free-flowering and easy of culture. Some are 
foliage-plants, and should always be ornamental. 
Allamanda. This is an elegant, straggling shrub with long 
and slender branches, producing large trumpet-shaped flowers 
of a deep yellow color, and rather long lanceolate leaves in 
whorls. Propagated by half-ripe cuttings, and will do well in 
a rich, fibrous soil. When the summer growth is finished late 
in fall the plants should have a thorough rest in winter, but 
