208 VINES 
Bryonopsis laciniosa are very attractive in their 
skins of pale green with white markings. They 
are very freely produced, but only when the 
plant is growing in a very hot, sunny location. 
B. laciniosa var. erythrocarpa has red fruit and 
white markings. In order to make these 
heat-loving plants fruit well, the seed should 
be sown in the greenhouse, not later than 
March 15, and the young plants not set out 
before June 1. . 
A curious fruiting vine, also for a very hot, 
dry location, where it will grow and fruit with 
freedom, is the balsam pea (Momordica Charantia). 
The fruit of this plant is oblong, very rough on 
the outer surface and of a yellowish colour. It 
is even more attractive after maturity, for the 
seed pod then bursts, showing the carmine centre. 
It is a tendril bearer, but, though a good grower, 
a dwarf, seldom growing more than six feet. 
Similar to it is the balsam apple (M. Balsamina), 
differing only in the formation of the fruit. 
Both these plants can be raised from seed in 
the same way as previously directed for annual 
vines. 
If you wish to furnish the children, and perhaps 
the grown folk, with some amusement, grow the 
squirting cucumber (Ecballium Elatertum). ‘This 
