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but for the ornamental, orange-coloured, egg-shaped 

 fruits that succeed them. Gardeners especially favoured 

 in the matters of sunshine and mild winters may grow 

 several lovely climbers that are scarcely to be recom- 

 mended for colder gardens; such, for instance, as 

 Solanum jasminoides, that bears a profusion of palest 

 mauve flowers ; the orange-red Trumpet flower (Bignonia 

 capreolata) ; the vivid, red-blossomed Pomegranate, and 

 Eccremocarpus scaber, with scarlet and yellow blooms 

 All these are of doubtful hardiness, yet I would not class 

 them as too difficult for any southern or south midland 

 garden possessing a sunny wall. For I have seen the 

 Eccremocarpus thriving admirably on verandah pillars 

 in a garden at Putney ; the Pomegranate, happy and in 

 gay blossom, on a low south wall at Kew ; and the 

 Bignonia, hoary with age yet blossoming still, in an 

 upland garden in Gloucestershire. In fact, I would 

 urge the reader who wishes to have his home garden 

 different from those of other people to try some of these 

 climbers of doubtful hardiness. They must, of course, 

 have the warmest, sunniest spot in the garden, a well- 

 drained soil that does not get sodden in winter, and some 

 protection in cold weather, such as is afforded by wisps 

 of straw or bracken interlaced among the branches, or 

 by mats nailed against the wall. One never knows what 

 the result will be, for most plants are wonderfully adaptive. 

 If one can only keep them safe for the first year or two, 

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