THE ORNAMENTAL PLANTS — CLIMBERS 



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Gourds or gourd-like plants, as, Coccinia Indica; Cucumis of several 



interesting species, as C. erinaceus, grossularicBfonnis, odoralissimus; 



dipper or bottle gourd (Lagenaria) ; 



vegetable sponge, dish-cloth gourd, 



rag gourd {Luffa) ; balsam apple, 



balsam pear {Momordica) ; snake 



gourd {Trichosanthes)] bryonopsis; 



Abobra viridiflora. 

 All the above except sweet pea are 



quickly cut down by frost. 



h. Twiners 

 Beans, Flowering. 

 Cypress vine. 



Dolichos Lablab, and others. 

 Hop, Japanese. 

 Ipomoea Quamoclit (cypress vine) and 



others. 

 Moonflower, several species. 

 Morning-glory. 

 Mina lobata. 

 Thunbergia. 

 Mikania scandens.* 



Butterfly pea, Centrosema Virginiana.'^ 

 Scarlet runner, Phaseolus multiflorus (perennial South). 

 Velvet or banana bean, Mucuna pruriens var. utilis (for the South). 



Sweet pea. 



Perennial herbaceous climbers. 



(The tops dying down in fall, but the root hving over winter and 

 sending up a new top.) 



a. Tendril-climbers or root-climbers 



Everlasting pea, Lathyrus latifolius. 



Clematis of various species, as C. aromatica, Davidinna, heracleoe/olia 

 (C. tubulosa), are more or less climbing. Most of the clematises 

 are shrubs. 



