CLIMBERS UNDER GLASS 83 



place in a warm greenhouse or stove and be trained up 

 cords or wires. It does best in loam and leaf-mould, 

 and is propagated by seeds, division, or cuttings in 

 heat in spring. 



The admirable climbing stove or greenhouse plant, 

 Littonia modesta, with fine orange-coloured bell-shaped 

 flowers, is very ornamental in the greenhouse and stove 

 against a pillar. It is usually cultivated like the Gloriosa, 

 and does well under such conditions. A popular plant 

 of climbing habit is Swainsonia coronillifolia or galegi- 

 folia, which has good-sized red flowers, and elegant 

 foliage. The white variety, albiflora, is a general 

 favourite. It is propagated by seeds, or by cuttings 

 of young growths struck in sand under a bell-glass. 

 Those who wish a curious plant of climbing growth may 

 procure the Elephant's Foot, Testudinaria elephantipes, 

 which grows in sandy loam or peat and has a curious 

 root which has given it the name of Elephant's Foot, 

 from a fancied resemblance to the foot of an Elephant. 

 It is difficult to flower. 



The tender Tropaeolums are capital greenhouse or 

 stove plants, and many do not realise the value of some 

 of the varieties of T. lobbianum for winter bloom when 

 so cultivated in a warm house, and trained up a trellis. 

 Then there is the beautiful T. azureum, with azure 

 flowers, and T. tricolorum, which both make fine pot- 

 plants for training to small trellises. These have 

 tuberous roots and should be kept cool and dry until 

 growth begins in spring when they should be repotted. 

 These like a good proportion of peat and sand in the 

 soil. 



Adhatoda cydoniaefolia is a distinct-looking evergreen 

 stove climber, which grows in good loam, and is pro- 

 pagated by cuttings of the young shoots in heat in 

 spring. Do not stop the shoots as the plants grow. 

 The Argyreias, which are of evergreen habit and also 



