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is called Tropceolum peregrinum. 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 conspicuous 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 the 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)y which bears pale lemon-coloured deliciously 

 fragrant flowers upon its leafless shoots in winter ; the ever- 

 green but not very hardy Mexican Orange-flower (Choisya 

 ternata], the handsome big-leaved Dutchman's Pipe (Aristo- 

 lochia Sipho\ Clematis Jackmani, C. montana, which also suc- 

 ceeds against a fence, a vigorous climber with a profusion of 

 white flowers in late spring ; the Vine, not omitting the 

 Japanese Vine ( Vitis Coignetice)) with its immense leaves dyed 

 crimson with colour in autumn ; the pretty, warmth-loving 

 Eccremocarpus scaber ; White Jasmine; Kerria japonica fl. pi. 

 (the double orange-flowered Jews' Mallow), often very beautiful 

 over cottage fronts, the winter-flowering Jasminum nudiflorum> 

 Honeysuckles, Passion-flower (the ordinary Passiflora ccerulea 

 is more beautiful to the writer than the white Constance 

 Elliott), and Roses. 



History of a Small Town Garden. The following 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 occu- 

 pied 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 truth not a garden at 

 all, but a small plot fresh from the builders' hands. The 

 builder had busied himself in eloping with the rich gravel 

 subsoil and substituting refuse of a varied kind. The ground 

 was taken possession of in September, trenched, good soil 

 substituted for bad, levelled, and before the autumn had far 

 advanced planted with a few things known to prove impervious 

 to the vicissitudes of suburban life. I have pursued the healthy 



