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think many plants bloom much the first season, but if 

 given good care and plenty of root room they bloom 

 profusely the second year. They like a rich loam, with 

 weekly applications of manure water. They must be 

 given a large tub or box to grow in. If kept in too 

 small a pot the leaves will often turn yellow and fall 

 quite suddenly. Constance Eliott has large flowers 

 of a greenish-white. Before expanding fully they 

 resemble a Pond Lily bud. P. coerulea is blue. The 

 latest variety is Eynsford Gem, of a beautiful, bright 

 rosy-purple. In constancy of flowering it seems supe- 

 rior to any other variety. This plant, like the Coboea, 

 is very effective when trained about the arch of a 

 bay window, where it can be allowed to droop and 

 festoon itself after its own ideas of what is graceful 

 and pleasing. Such a window intertwined with 

 Passiflora, Coboea, Hoya and other vines is shown in 

 Fig 42. 



The Solanum 



Solanum jasminoides is one of the prettiest of all 

 small climbers. It has pleasing foliage, and produces 

 great quantities of star-shaped flowers, white, faintly 

 tinged with pearly lilac. It grows to be ten or twelve 

 feet high, branching freely. I consider it one of the 

 best flowering climbing plants for the house. It 

 requires the same treatment as the Passion Flower. 

 It is much more satisfactory than that plant for the 

 ordinary window, because it is a less rampant grower 

 and does not ask for a large pot. 



The English Ivy 



Of all vines for house culture there is none that 

 excels, or equals, this. It is the vine par excellence of 

 all vines for the sitting room. It grows vigorously 

 when once established, branches freely, stands dust, 



