CLIMBING ANNUALS 5 



Sultans, Shirley Poppies, Sweet Peas, and Cornflowers. To 

 these may be added, for home use, not for travelling, Alonsoa 

 Warscewicsii^ various Tropaeolums, Coreopsis, Cacalia coccinea, 

 Marigolds, Larkspurs, Annual Gaillardias, Candytuft, Linaria 

 maroccana and Linums. 



In view of the fact that rock-gardening is so popular 

 it is well to bear in mind that some Annuals are very suitable 

 for association with Alpine and other dwarf plants in the 

 Rock Garden. Campanula drabaefolia, Mesenibryanthemuin 

 crystallvtunty M . pomeridanuni, and M. pyropaeum, Layia elegans, 

 Giliaandi'osacea and G. rosea, Limnanthes Douglasii, Portulacas, 

 lonopsidium. acaule, Grammanthes gentianoides, Eucharidiums, 

 Dimorphotheca aurantiaca, and Brachycome ibiridifolia are but 

 a few of those that may be usefully employed for filling bare 

 spaces in the Rock Garden, or for cultivation on those parts 

 where spring-flowering bulbous plants make an early display 

 and then die down. 



When we come to consider Climbing Annuals it is 

 obvious that the fullest possible use is not made of the 

 wealth of material at disposal. Every one knows how beauti- 

 ful is Tropaeolum peregrinum, the ever popular Canary Creeper, 

 which grows so quickly and covers a large space with its 

 elegant, light green leafage and myriads of little, golden, 

 bird-like blossoms. The climbing Tropaeolum viajus and the 

 showy T. Lobbianum are also well known, and no one dare 

 plead ignorance of Sweet Peas. But there are other climb- 

 ing Annuals, and they include Thunbergia alata, Loasa auran- 

 tiaca — this has stinging leaves, and may be used with advan- 

 tage at a spot where it becomes necessary to keep other 

 people's "hands from picking and stealing"; the Japanese 

 Hop [Hiwiulus japoniacs), a particularly useful climber ; 

 the various Ipomaeas or climbing Convolvuluses ; orna- 

 mental gourds in great variety, chiefly members of the 

 Cucumis and Cucurbita families, though Trichosanthes anguina 



