ON TJIAINING PLANTS AGAINST WALLS, &C. 249 



I think that considerable praise is due to the Northern growers, 

 for the niag-nitude of their exhibitions ; there is notliing of the amount 

 in the South, the only approximation that occurs to myinind was some 

 years since, at Lawrance's, at Hampton, when the late Queen Adelaide 

 gave a cup of the value of twenty-five guineas for the best collection. 

 In the South the blooms at an exhibition are counted by the hundreds, 

 in the North by the thousands ; an example I could wish the Southerns 

 to follow. And why could it not be done ? and a concentration made 

 of Tulips to the same extent as Dahlias ? to the cultivators it would 

 be quite as exciting, and to the public quite, if not more gratifying. 

 In some future letter, I may perhaps give you some idea of the extent 

 to which the cultivation of the Tulip is carried in tlie North. 



Yours truly, 



Manchester. Daiil. 



ON TRAINING PLANTS AGAINST WALLS, TRELLISES, 



PILLARS, &c. 



Caltstegia pubescens. — Most of our readers have by this time 

 become acquainted with this double flowering Bindweed, introduced a 

 iaw years ago from China. A plant of it grooving in an ornamental 

 barrel in the Swiss Garden at Shrubland Park has tliis season produced 

 single blossoms. Eacii flower is about the size of those of Ipomcea 

 Learii, the colour between salmon and French white, with five stripes 

 or divisions of a lighter colour, and is exceedingly beautiful. Being 

 quite Iiardy, and increasing rapidly, it is a cliarming climber, and will 

 prove a fine plant for the summer covering of a wall, fence, verandah, 

 &c. 



Solanum jasminoides. — In the Royal Gardens of Kew there are 

 some fine plants trained to an east aspected wall, which prove quite 

 hardy, grow freely, and bloom profusely. The numerous fine heads of 

 white flowers, borne throughout the summer, render it a valuable 

 acquisition. 



Bignonia jasminoides. — This very beautiful flowering plant, 

 growing against an east aspected wall, has bloomed very freely durino- 

 the present summer, more profusely and larger blossoms than when 

 grown in the greenhouse. It requires a sligiit protection so as to be 

 preserved from frost and damp ; this being aflbrded, it thrives and blooms 

 admirably. 



Manuevillia suaveolens. — This charming flowering plant grows 

 and blooms very freely either against a wall or pillar in a sheltered 

 situation. It only requires a slight protection in winter just to keep it 

 from frost. Tlie great thing ^^■ith it is to have its groAvth promoted 

 early in tlie spring, so that tiie wood may be fully hardened by tiie end 

 of tlie growing season. It blooms from July to October. A laro-e 

 plant, growing in a pot in tlie greenliouse, was taken out last April 

 and the pot sunk in a border at the foot of a pillar in the flower o-arden. 

 It. grew rapidly, and now is twelve feet high, in profuse bloom. At 

 the time of sinking the pot the crocks at the bottom were removed 



