Passion Flowers and Clematis 
the gardener is not to ruin good architecture, but to 
enhance what beauties it possesses. 
Of climbers that will cover and hide ugly fences, 
clothe unsightly banks, create shady walks and arbours, 
there are enough and to spare. All those I have men- 
tioned are suitable, and to them can be added the 
Vitis, of which there are forms that fruit, and are beau- 
tiful therefore, and others whose greatest attraction 
lies in their glorious foliage and glowing autumn 
tints ; Vitis Coignetize purpurea, a purple form, turns 
crimson and orange in the autumn. Polygonum 
baldschuanicum is a rapid climber, and smothers itself 
with white, or rather pink-tinted, flowers from early 
June to late September. The Passion flowers, too, 
are always attractive, and are hardy in most places, 
although they sometimes suffer during very severe 
winters ; but even when, as sometimes happens, they 
are severely cut by frost they usually break out quite 
freely again in the spring. There are two good forms, 
Passiflova coerulea, with pale blue flowers, and a white 
variety, called Constance Elliott. They flower most 
of the summer, and in the autumn produce large orange 
fruits that are ornamental for several months longer. 
Of the Clematis that are beautiful there are too many 
to mention in detail, but there are one or two that it 
will be well to have, amongst numerous others: Nellie 
Moser, a silvery white variety, with a carmine band in 
each sepal, and will go on flowering in mild weather 
until Christmas. Lady Northcliffe is one of the best of 
the lavender-blue varieties, and flowers from July 
onwards. It is particularly beautiful when planted to 
ramble amongst pink Wichuriana roses, and begins to 
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