PLANTS AGAINST WALLS 107 



These, and such as these, are plants of never- 

 failing interest and beauty, making our houses 

 into veritable fairy palaces. 



CLIMBING PLANTS FOB FENCES AND ARCHES. 



Nasturtium Tropceolum majus. This well- 

 known annual can be had in all shades of red and 

 yellow, and is very showy and effective in the late 

 summer. 



Canary Flower Tropceolum peregrinum, has 

 numerous bright yellow flowers, and pretty light 

 foliage ; a hardy annual. 



Flame Flower Tropceolum speciosum. A most 

 lovely perennial, but will only grow in favoured 

 localities; it is a rampant climber in Scotland, 

 North Wales, and many parts of the West of Eng- 

 land. A plant that requires a thoroughly damp 

 atmosphere, and the best chance of success is to 

 give it a north, or north-west aspect, with shade and 

 moisture to its roots, but the blossom in full light. 



Everlasting Peas Lathyrus. The earliest and 

 handsomest of these flowers is L. grandiflorus, 

 which blows early in June ; flowers, pink and car- 

 mine, two on a stem, as large, or larger than 

 Sweet Peas, growing to a height of five or six feet ; 



