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Climbing Plants. 



choicest gardening the splendid varieties of the Japanese C. patens and the 

 Chinese C. lanuginosa, and the many pretty hybrids of C. viticella. Then we 

 have Bignonia radicans with its ash-like leaves and trumpet flowers of orange 

 and scarlet ; Solanum crispum and S. jasminoides. Grape vines of the Chasselas 

 class form perhaps the most beautiful of all wall covering, especially for 

 sheltered, quiet places where bright flowers are not absolutely needed ; but among 

 vines, where colour is wanted, there is the crimson-foliaged claret vine and Vitis 

 CoigneticB, brilliant-hued in autumn. Roses one can but barely touch upon except 

 to say that warm walls are only suitable for teas and noisettes. 



Then there are the numbers of shrubs, which, though not of a climbing habit, are 

 thoroughly satisfactory when trained to walls. Figs for important foliage ; Pyrus 

 japonica and the winter-sweet {Chimonanthus) for winter bloom; Ahiitilon vitifolium, 

 of extreme beauty and strangely little planted ; ceanothus of several kinds ; Buddleia 

 uariahilis Veitchii, choisya, the brittle Robinia hispida, with flower-clusters something 

 like wistaria, but of a charming pink colour. Then for cold exposures the common 

 guelder rose makes a capital wall plant, and is well accompanied by Clematis montana 

 running through it, flowering at the same time, and adding to the pretty picture of 

 copious white bloom. Another happy mixture for a cool wall is the handsome shrubby 

 spiraea, 5. lindleyana, with its cream-coloured bloom and fine pinnate leaves. Clematis 

 Flammula trained through this forms another desirable combination. Laurustinus, 

 not only the common but also the black, and the later-blooming L. lucidus are all 

 excellent for training to cool walls. 



FIG. 154.— AMPELOPSIS VEITCIUI RESTRICTED IN GROWTH 

 SO THAT THE WHOLE WALL FACE IS NOT COVERED. 



