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is called Tropwolum canariensis. Of permanent Climbers the 

 Ivy is the most satisfactory if occasionally cut hard back in 

 spring, removing almost every leaf ; and of deciduous kinds the 

 Virginian Creeper is safe. The kind that clings most tightly 

 to the wall is called muralis ; it is not so well known as 

 Veitchi, but is freer, the growths being close to the wall with- 

 out that excessively rigid character conspicu- 

 ous in a Veitchi. When the garden is not in 

 the centre of a town, but a few miles (say 

 five) outside, of course the list of plants that 

 may be grown is more extensive. Against 

 a south wall may be planted the beautiful 

 Ceanothus azureus, which will reach almost 

 to the chimney stack, a surface of delightful 

 blue flowers in summer; the Winter Sweet 

 {Chimonanthus fragrans grandiflorus), which 

 bears pale lemon-coloured deliciously frag- 

 rant flowers upon its leafless shoots in winter ; 

 the evergreen but not very hardy Mexican 

 Orange-flower (Choisya ternata), the hand- 

 some big-leaved Dutchman's Pipe (Aristo- 

 lochia Sip ho), Clematis Jackmani, C. montana, 

 which also succeeds against a fence, a vigor- 

 ous climber with a profusion of white flowers 

 in late spring ; the Vine, not omitting the 

 Japanese Vine ( Vitis Coignetise), with its im- 

 mense leaves dyed crimson with colour in 

 autumn; the pretty, warmth-loving Eccremo- 

 carpus scaber, White Jasmine ; Kerria japonica 

 ft. pi. (the double orange-flowered Jews' 

 Mallow), often very beautiful over cottage 

 fronts, the winter-flowering Jasminum nudi- 

 ftorum. Honeysuckles, Passion-flower (the 

 ordinary Passiflora cszrulea is more beautiful 

 to the writer than the white Constance Elliott), 

 and Roses. 



History of a Small Town Garden. The fol- 

 lowing account of a small garden in the suburbs (west and in 

 Thames valley), and about three miles from the Marble Arch 

 will show how much may be accomplished in quite a small 

 way when suitable plants are obtained and spare time is given 

 ungrudgingly. In this case, however, the possessor of the 

 garden was much occupied with his official pursuits and many 

 evenings occasionally went by when little work was possible : 

 " My garden is small, in a crowded suburb, and when taken 

 possession of presented the usual picture of despair. It was in 



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