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Soil, Planting, After-Management and Propagation . 8 



Errors in Planting — Preparing Station — Soil — Manures — 

 Planting — Feeding — Shade — Pruning and Training — 

 Supports — Enemies and Remedies — Under Glass — Pro- 

 pagation. 



Annual Climbing Plants . . . . .21 



Value and Uses — Perennials treated as Annuals — Hardy 

 Annuals — Preparation of Soil — Sowing Seeds — Thinning 

 out — Tropaeolums — Sweet Peas — Ipomoeas — Maurandya 

 — Amphicarpasa — Echinocystis — Half-hardy Annuals — 

 Sowing — Ipomoeas — Eccremocarpus — Gourds — Cobsa — 

 Thunbergia — Mina — PassifTora — Japanese — Hop — 

 Adlumia — Grammatocarpus — Dolichos — Tender Annuals 

 — Ipomoea — Citrullus — Porana — Sowing. 



Hardy Deciduous and Herbaceous Cllmbers . . .28 



The Vitis — Ampelopsis — Wistarias — Loniceras — Apios — 

 Rubuses — Jasminums — Aristolochia — Hydrangea — 

 Schizophragma — Muehlenbeckia — Lyciums — Periploca — 

 Polygonum — Lathyrus — Calystegias — Convolvulus — 

 Cynananchum — Actinidias — Decumaria — Celastrus — 

 Hablitzia — Humulus — Ipomoea — Cucumis — Megarrhiza 

 — Menispermum — Mutisias — Tropasolums. 



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Editor's Note . . . . - 



^ Introductory . . . 



The Value and Beauty of Climbers — Cheapness of Some — 

 Nature and Habits — Plants Included — Nomenclature. 



