CHAPTER VIII 



CLIMBERS UNDER GLASS 



Cultural Hints — Abutilons — AUamandas — Bignonias — Bougainvilleas — 

 Clerodendrons — Lapagerias — Ipomoeas — Batatus — Convolvulus — 

 Passifloras — Tacsonias — Thombergias — Stephanotis — Tecomas — 

 Aganosmas — Akebia — Bomareas — Alstroemeria — Aristolochias — 

 Amphilophiums — Antigonons — Gloriosas — Asparaguses — Cana- 

 valias — Dolichos — Miiletia — Oxypetalum — Petrea — Hidalgoa 

 Wercklei. 



While the value of climbers under glass is recognised 

 in most large establishments, where the structures are 

 lofty and afford space enough for their development and 

 display, there is room for their increased cultivation in 

 the conservatories, greenhouses and stoves of smaller 

 gardens, which often stand in need of additional 

 embellishment, although in these smaller buildings there 

 is more danger of the climbers overshadowing the plants 

 beneath, and, if neglected, injuring their growth and 

 beauty. Yet the climber adds so much to the attractions 

 of the conservatory or greenhouse that one or more 

 plants of its habit ought to be grown, even if the more 

 luxuriant growers have to be excluded. Some of the 

 more slender-growing species are charming draping a 

 back wall, twining up a pillar, or hanging gracefully 

 from the rafters above. In the chapter on the soil and 

 management of climbing plants a general idea is given 

 of the cultivation and treatment required for these plants 

 when grown under glass, but one would again impress 

 upon the reader the necessity of the utmost cleanliness, 

 proper ventilation, and the prompt destruction of any 



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