Ipomoea 
rubro 
coerulea 
grouped 
with other 
plants 
their tendrils round other cool green stems and leaves. It 
would be satisfactory if they would grow with some of the 
rampant strength of the large white Convolvulus, which wreathes 
and beautifies our hedges, or of some of the other blue varieties 
which garland the houses in America and South Africa, but 
it is a Mexican plant, and needs warmth for its development. 
The tropical and fragile look, brought with it from Southern 
climes, makes one prefer to group it with other delicate-looking 
plants, such as Szainsona, with white, pea-shaped flowers, or 
with the white sprays of Francoa ramosa. It would climb 
prettily too upon Solanum jasminoides, and.I have seen it most 
fittingly used with this latter plant in vases on a lawn. If it 
were planted on the posts of a sunny verandah, one could watch 
its twisted buds unfold from the window, while behind it, on 
the partly shaded wall, could be grown white Lapageria, or 
the sweet-scented Rhyncospermum jasminoides. It is perhaps 
hardly well enough known that Lapagerias, both red and 
white, are almost hardy. They are particularly useful for 
the place suggested above, where the roof of the verandah is 
solid and little sunshine penetrates. ‘They thrive best of all 
in a north greenhouse, where their waxy, bell-like flowers and 
glossy, green leaves look well twined round the iron supports, 
or clothing the sunless wall. 
There are several half hardy annual creepers, which can 
be grown under the same conditions as the blue Convolvulus. 
Mina lobata makes bright garlands of red and yellow flowers 
through August and the early autumn. ‘Trained, as one 
occasionally sees it, to a red brick wall, much of its beauty 
is lost; it should rather be allowed to clamber over some 
bush or creeper which has gone out of flower, or to mix 
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