ANNUAL VINES 81 
it prefers the full sunshine. The seed pods of 
the nasturtium are gathered by some folks and 
pickled as a substitute for capers. The leaves 
are also used as a salad, but are not popular, for 
the flavour is very pungent. The nasturtiums 
are twiners and are rather dwarf in habit, six 
feet being about the maximum height. A taller 
climbing form is found in Lobb’s climbing 
nasturtium (7. Lobbianum). This vine has finer 
colours than the common nasturtium, and the 
leaves set out farther from the stem of the plant, 
giving it a looser and more attractive appearance. 
This variety will run up to eight feet. 
VINES WITH YELLOW FLOWERS 
The best yellow-flowered, annual climber is 
the canary bird vine (Tropaeolum peregrinum), 
which is not so well known as it deserves to be. 
The colour of the flowers is a clear yellow, a 
colour that is seen in but few vines. To get the 
canary bird vine to do its very best, the seed 
should be sown in the greenhouse or frame about 
the middle of March. The plant will then flower 
by July 1 and continue blooming until frost. 
If you have no facilities for starting it early in 
heat, the seed may be sown in the open ground, 
but the results will not be so satisfactory, as it 
