140 The Flower Garden 



The Trumpet Vine is equally desirable as a climber, 

 and on some surfaces is self-supporting, but on others, 

 as the side of a building or a board fence, it often fails 

 to attach itself, and in that case must be artificially 

 supported. This should be very securely done, as a 

 hard storm may tear a heavy-topped specimen en- 

 tirely away from its support and do much damage. 

 The best support is afforded by stretching a galvan- 

 ised wire across a branch, just under a joint, and fast- 

 ening each end by a staple driven firmly into the 

 building. 



Grown as a shrub on the lawn the Trumpet Vine is 

 very fine and should be trained to a stake and grown 

 the same as a Kilmarnock Willow. Every year, as my 

 Bignonias bloom, I grow more and more enthusiastic 

 over their possibilities, and wish more people would 

 grow them with some definite aim in view. 



