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EDITOR'S NOTE ....... xiii 



INTRODUCTORY ....... i 



The Value and Beauty of Climbers Cheapness of Some 

 Nature and Habits Plants Included Nomenclature. 



SOIL, PLANTING, AFTER-MANAGEMENT AND PROPAGATION . 8 



Errors in Planting Preparing Station Soil Manures 

 Planting Feeding Shade Pruning and Training 

 Supports Enemies and Remedies Under Glass Pro- 

 pagation. 



ANNUAL CLIMBING PLANTS . . . . .21 



Value and Uses Perennials treated as Annuals Hardy 

 Annuals Preparation of Soil Sowing Seeds Thinning 

 out Tropseolums Sweet Peas Ipomoeas Maurandya 

 Amphicarpaea Echinocystis Half-hardy Annuals 

 Sowing Ipomoeas Eccremocarpus Gourds Cobsea 

 Thunbergia Mina Passiflora Japanese Hop 

 Adlumia Grammatocarpus Dolichos Tender Annuals 

 Ipomoea Citrullus Porana Sowing. 



HARDY DECIDUOUS AND HERBACEOUS CLIMBERS . . .28 



The Vitis Ampelopsis Wistarias Loniceras Apios 

 Rubuses Jasminums Aristolochia Hydrangea 

 Schizophragma Muehlenbeckia Lyciums Periploca 

 Polygonum Lathyrus Calystegias Convolvulus 

 Cynananchum Actinidias Decumaria Celastrus 

 Hablitzia Humulus Ipomoea Cucumis Megarrhiza 

 Menispermum Mutisias Tropzolums. 



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