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T. Lobbianum has also given a number of attractive climb- 

 ing varieties, of more refined appearance than the T. majus 

 varieties, and most of these have Ivy-like leafage. Some of 

 the best are : Brilliant, deep scarlet ; Crown Prince of 

 Prussia, blood-red and maroon ; Defiance, scarlet ; Lucifer, 

 scarlet ; Regina, salmon and crimson ; Golden Gem, yellow ; 

 Rosy Queen, rose ; and Spitfire, vermilion. 



The ever popular Canary Creeper, with its elegant leafage 

 and hosts of little Canary-like blooms, is a beautiful climber, 

 and it is doubtful whether any annual climber can compare 

 with it for usefulness and beauty. It is Tropaeolum aduncum 

 (syn. T. peregrttium), or the T. canariense of gardens. 



Tropaeolums grow rampantly in rich, moist soil, but in 

 such conditions leaf and stem are produced at the expense 

 of flowers, or the leaf stems are so long and the leaf blades 

 so br(nid that they quite overshadow the blooms. It there- 

 fore becomes necessary to grow Tropaeolums in rather poorer 

 soil and to give them a bright position and a fairly dry one 

 if the most brilliant results are desired. All the foregoing 

 are Half-hardy in the sense that they cannot stand frost, but 

 in another sense they are Hardy, for every one knows that 

 self-sown seeds will survive the Winter and produce plants 

 the following Spring, rarely appearing until danger from frost 

 is over. 



ZINNIA 

 '' Youth and Age" 



At the end of this list of Annuals come the Zinnias ; 

 but though last they are by no means least in order of merit, 

 for they possess a brilliance and beauty that places them in 

 the front rank for garden ornamentation. Either for beds 

 or for groups in the mixed border the Zinnias {Cojnpositce) 

 are first class. The flower heads of the fine strains of double 

 Zinnias (see Plate VIII) are a trifle formal, it must be con- 

 fessed, but they are none the less handsome. Well-grown 



