134 A GARDEN OF PLEASURE 



villia growing in the open air. It covers 

 half the front of an old house, climbing up 

 to the roof, and when I saw it the pure 

 white blossoms were clustered thickly all 

 over it. The situation in which this 

 Mandevillia grows and has flourished for 

 many years is warm and sheltered, the 

 house-walls of hummel-stone, being built 

 in a niche under a limestone cliff. Pos- 

 sibly this may not be the only greenhouse 

 creeper that might thrive in the open air, 

 at least during the summer months. We 

 have tried successfully the white and the 

 salmon-coloured black-eyed Thunbergia ; 

 also convolvulus from Indian seed, which 

 has richer and more varied colouring than 

 the common convolvulus major. 



The lightness and gaiety of a flowery 

 hedge of it is indescribable. That which 

 I saw is nearly 10 feet high, the frame- 

 work made of crossed stakes, the convol- 

 vulus climbing and twining up to the top 

 and flowering profusely on both sides. 



Espaliers of gooseberries I also saw 

 at an old place in Hampshire, bordering 

 the walks round three sides of the kitchen- 



