August 13, 1890. 



Garden and Forest. 



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Kig. 50. — Tecoma grandiflora. — See page 302 



unable to attach themselves to walls. In another variety the 

 tendrils branch into several divisions, each of which is ter- 

 minated by a flat, sponge-like disk that unites itself with con- 

 siderable tenacity to hard and comparatively smooth surfaces. 

 On the grounds of the University of Wisconsin the Virginia 

 Creeper is much at home, coming up spontaneously about the 



whole campus. Attempts have been made to train it over the 

 walls of the stone buildings, but these have been successful 

 only in a few instances, where the variety was the one bearing 

 the branched and disk-bearing tendrils above described. One 

 variety seems especially well suited to the purpose, the foliage 

 being very dense, the tendrils uniting themselves firmly and 



