CHAPTER III 



ANNUAL CLIMBING PLANTS 



Value and Uses — Perennials treated as Annuals — Hardy Annuals- 

 Preparation of Soil — Sowing Seeds — Thinning out — Tropseolums 

 — Sweet Peas — Ipomceas — Maurandya — Amphicarpaea — Echino- 

 cystis — Half-hardy Annuals— Sowing — Ipomoeas — Eccremocarpus 

 — Gourds — Cobaea — Thunbergia — Mina — Passiflora — Japanese 

 — Hop — Adlumia — Grammatocarpus — Dolichos — Tender Annuals 

 — Ipomoea — Citrullus — Porana — Sowing. 



While perennial climbing plants are more useful as a 

 whole, the annuals of similar habit have many claims 

 upon our notice, both from their beauty and because of 

 the value they possess for ornamenting places where 

 perennials would be out of place. They may also be 

 used temporarily for positions which will eventually be 

 covered with perennial climbers which have not become 

 sufficiently established to cover the desired space. For 

 this purpose, those of a slender and non-encroaching 

 character are to be preferred so as to avoid weakening 

 and injuring the growth of the permanent ones. In the 

 table of suitable plants the annual climbers have been 

 divided into Hardy Annuals, Half-Hardy Annuals, and 

 Tender Annuals. In the lists are also included some 

 plants of perennial habit, but which will flower the first 

 year from seed. These are frequently too tender to 

 stand the winter of a great part of the British Isles and 

 are thus most" satisfactorily treated as annuals. The 

 Eccremocarpus is one of these, although it will not 

 only survive the winter but will occasionally remain 

 evergreen in the milder coast districts. The common 



