i8 PRESENT-DAY GARDENING 



A most useful plant is the Winter Jasmine (J. nudiflorum), 

 which bursts into bloom in December. We owe it, as we 

 do so many good things, to Japan. It always looks its best 

 when against a wall, probably because of the shelter from 

 wind that it gets in such a position. Its Chinese sister, 

 /. primulinum, has not yet distinguished itself in English 

 gardens, appearing to be too tender to be grown outside, 

 in the neighbourhood of London at any rate, though we 

 have seen it flowering nicely in a sheltered position against 

 a south wall in November. Properly it ought not to be 

 classed as a climber, though it is pretty certain to be 

 treated as one in English gardens. The great Burmese 

 Honeysuckle (Lonicera Hildebrandtiana), although a magnifi- 

 cent climber in its mountain home, has yet to prove its use- 

 fulness in this country. In the greenhouse it is a straggler, 

 and not free with blossom. Mr. Veitch grows and flowers 

 it well in his Exeter nursery, and it has done fairly well out- 

 of-doors here and there in Cornwall and in South-west 

 Ireland ; possibly if some clever breeder would exercise his 

 art in crossing honeysuckles he would produce hybrids 

 combining the vigour of say L. etrusca and L. Hildebrandii 

 with the floral qualities of our native species and the North 

 American L. sempervirens. 



Roses must have a chapter to themselves. After all, 

 when we begin to talk about beautiful hardy climbers, one 

 is certain to begin with "Well, there are Roses/' And 

 there are Roses nowadays, climbers such as our grand- 

 fathers never dreamt of, thanks in the first place to the 

 introduction of R. Wichuraiana and Crimson Rambler, and 

 in the second place to the success of the breeder who has 

 combined the qualities of these two with so many of our 

 other garden roses. There were, of course, numerous beauti- 



