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newly opened Ipomea rubro-ccerulea, popularly known 

 as Heavenly Blue and well deserving the name. It 

 must be raised in heat early in the year and be put 

 out in June against a warm wall. Here it is in a narrow 

 border at the foot of a wall facing south-west, where, 

 by the aid of a few short pea-sticks, it climbs into the 

 lower branches of a Vine. The Vine is one of the 

 Chasselas kind, with leaves of a rather pale green, 

 almost yellowish-green colouring that makes the best 

 possible foil to the pure blue of the Ipomea. To 

 my eye it is the most enjoyable colour-feast of the 

 year. Solatium crispum, with purple flowers in goodly 

 bunches, is one of the best of wall shrubs. 



Another of the tender plants that is beautiful for 

 walls and for free rambling over other wall-growths 

 is Solanum jasminoides. Its white clusters come into 

 bloom in middle summer and persist till latest autumn. 

 In two gardens near me it is of singular beauty ; in the 

 one case on the sunny wall of a sheltered court where 

 it covers a considerable space, in the other against a 

 high south retaining-wall where, from the terrace above, 

 the flowers are seen against the misty woodland of 

 the middle distance and the pure grey-blue af the far- 

 away hills. Turning roimd on the very same spot, 

 there is the remarkable growth of the Sweet Verbena, 

 that owes its luxuriance to its roots and main shoots 

 being under shelter. There must be unending oppor- 

 tunities, where there are verandahs, of having just 

 such bowers of sweetness to brush against in passing 

 and to waft scented air to the windows of the roo ns 

 above. 



