CLIMBING PLANTS. 



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house climber is well adapted for outside cultivation 

 in summer, and should be placed in a sunny skel- 

 tered position, when its bright deep blue flowers 

 are produced in profusion for a considerable time. 

 It is readily propagated by cuttings. 



Tecoma radicans. — The Trumpet Flower, 

 .sometimes known as Bignonia radicans. A tall, 

 handsome climber, witk brigkt green pinnate leaves, 

 and very skowy orange and scarlet flowers, wkick 

 are produced in tke summer montks. Rootlets are 

 produced from tke joints of tke stem, by which it 

 supports itself. It succeeds well against a warm 

 wall or sunny bank. It 

 may be propagated by cut- 

 tings. 



Thunbergia alata. — 



A handsome annual, which 

 succeeds well in a sunny 

 situation during the summer 

 montks. Tke slender twin- 

 ing stems skould be provided 

 witk a few kgkt sticks to 

 ckmb upon. A light rick 

 soil is tke most suitable. 



Tropseolum. — Tkree 

 species of tkis highly orna- 

 mental genus, with their 

 many varieties, deserve men- 

 tion here. 



T. aduncum. — The Canary 

 ■Creeper, sometimes known as T. per eg r in urn, from its 

 rambkng kabit, and T. Canariense, an erroneous and 

 misleading name. It is a ckarming plant, and suit- 

 able for covering walls, palings, balconies, rustic 

 arckes, and many otker similar situations. Tke 

 leaves are small, witk five rounded lobes, and tke 

 brigkt yellow flowers are beautifully fringed. Tke 

 seeds skould be sown in Marck or April, in good 

 soil, and very skady positions skould be avoided. 

 It is a native of New Grenada. 



T. majus. — Tkis plant often goes under tke 

 name of Nasturtium, and it is one of tke best of 

 all plants for tke summer coverings of old palings 

 or similar objects. It kkes a good soil and a 

 sunny position, and witk these requisites little is 

 requked beyond planting the seeds in March or 

 April, and providing the necessary supports. A few 

 twiggy branches of trees may be placed for the plant 

 to climb upon, or keep it close to a wooden fence or 

 wall. The plant is grown by some as a kitchen gar- 

 den herb, the young flower-buds and green fruits 

 being pickled in vinegar, and used instead of Capers, 

 to which some people consider them preferable. 



T. speciosum. — A charming and neat little climber, 

 with small four to six-lobed leaves, and a profusion 

 of crimson-red flowers of peculiar shape, succeeded in 

 the autumn by a crop of striking blue berries, making 

 a brilliant contrast with the bright green foliage. It 

 is seldom, however, seen doing well in the South 

 of England, while in Scotland it may be seen climb- 

 ing up the gable-ends of buildings in the most 

 luxuriant health. It has a running underground 

 perennial stem, by means of which it spreads, and 

 from which young plants may be obtained. A north 

 wall should be selected, or a position where the sun 

 only shines for a short time in the morning or 

 evening, and good drainage 

 secured, as the plant is very 

 impatient of stagnant water 

 at the roots; a little leaf- 

 mould and sand should also 

 be forked in. During warm 

 weatker occasional syring- 

 ings skould be given, and 

 copious waterings wken ne- 

 cessary; a mulching of Hght 

 rotten manure should also 

 be given. By these means 

 the roots are kept cool 

 and moist, and red spider 

 kept in check : an insect to 

 wkick tke plant is especially 

 liable. 



Tke most desirable Tender 

 climbers and creepers will 

 be found treated of under 

 tke kead of Green-house or Stove Plants. 



In addition to tke foregoing and tke many 

 climbers enumerated as adapted for window garden- 

 ing, tke following plants are often used for tke 

 clotking of walls, covering of arbours, &c. : — 

 Berberis Darwinii. 

 Bignonia capriolata. 

 Bignonia grandiflora. 

 Bignonia radicans major. 

 Bignonia sangainea. 

 Buddleia globosa. 

 Ceanothus azurcus, and otkers. 

 Cotoneaster Simondsii, and otkers. 

 Escallonia macrantha, and otkers. 

 Ligustrum Japonicum — Japan Privet. 

 Magnolia grandiflora, and otkers. 

 Pyracantha Lelandii, &c. 

 Pyrus Japonica — alba rosea — san guinea. 

 Wigelia of sorts. 



Tkere is also a golden variegated-leaved variety 

 of tke common wkito Jasminnm officinalis, wkick is 

 more dwarf and equally fragrant as tke plain-leaved 

 and universally-grown one. 



Thunbergia Alata 



