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POLYGANUM BALDSCHUANICUM 



Polyganum baldschuanicum is getting better known, and for cover- 

 ing a large arch there is nothing quite equal to it. Its blush-white 

 flowers are abundantly produced throughout the summer and it 

 outgrows almost every other climber. Associated with other 

 climbers it will smother them, so is best given an arch or a trellis to 

 itself. Cuttings of this in the open ground in autumn strike readily. 



SOLANUM JASMINOIDES 



Solanum jasminoides grows nearly as fast as the foregoing but is 

 not as hardy. On the south coast it makes a splendid show, but 

 should not figure as a hardy climber in any but the southern counties. 

 Cuttings. 



Pyrus and Pyracanthas have been dealt with on page 40, which see. 



BIGNONIA RADICANS 



Bignonia radicans forms a beautiful climber for a veranda and is 

 a splendid associate with the wistarias. Its bunches of orange- 

 scarlet trumpet flowers are exceedingly handsome and are in every 

 way (to use the vernacular) " classy." It is grown from cuttings, 

 best inserted in pots in August, and stood in a frame. 



WISTARIAS 



Undoubtedly the most beautiful of all climbers. A large plant of 

 this, well established and healthy, produces an effect quite indescrib- 

 able. It is very hardy, but it only does its best when it is afforded 

 ample space and generous treatment. The best known, because the 

 oldest, variety is " Sinensis," which produces long racemes of 

 purplish-lilac flowers in early summer. " Multijuga," a newer 

 introduction, has much longer racemes of similar colour, and 

 " Sinensis alba," very lovely, is the white form of the first named. 

 Root grafts. 



PASSIFLORA 



This is old and as popular as it is old, a never-ending source of 

 interest to the man in the street. The extremely curious and sug- 

 gestive form of its bloom and the traditions attached to it are the 

 causes of its popularity, apart from which it has the merit of being 

 a particularly rapid grower, though perhaps not too hardy. The 



