cli:mbees. 



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varieties : single and double red, single and double 

 whitish flowered, and yellow. There is also a dwarf 

 kind, requiring heat. 



As the flower garden generally includes the front of 

 the dwelling, and often, besides summer-houses and other 

 erections of the sort, walls, trellises, and all things of 

 the kind needing to be beautified, a good choice of orna- 

 mental climbing and creeping plants will often be 

 needed. Ivy, that never-failing resource in covering 

 unsightly objects, has many varieties ; some large and 

 bold in the foliage, some prettily minute ; and there are 

 several kinds of which the leaves are variously varie- 

 gated, as to both the disposition and colour of the mark- 

 ing. A deep rich soil suits the common ivy ; the 

 tender kinds require lighter earth. It may be grown 

 from seed, but the quicker plan is to plant slips in a 

 north border in sandy soil, keep them moist through the 

 autumn, and plant them out where they are wanted to 

 grow, when they are well rooted. If one had room to 

 spare, from giving plain information, to get poetical, all 

 sorts of loving things might be said of ivy, unfailingly 

 refreshing to the eye as screen or carpet where it alone 

 will cling, and thrive, and beautify, and showing its 

 sober green even in the smoke of densely populated 

 towns. But I must leave it to the love that all feel for 

 it, and turn to gayer climbers. 



The Bignonia, or Trumpet-flower, Bignonia capreo- 

 lata^ is sufficiently hardy to stand our climate on a wall 

 of south aspect. Its magnificent flowers render it one 

 of our handsomest plants for a wall. It must have 

 plenty of room. Cuttings root readily in sand, or cut- 

 tings of the root may be taken ; they should be planted 

 in spring or autumn, and covered with a hand glass. 

 There are many beautiful tender bignonias ; as they are 

 very handsome, it might be worth while to try the least 

 tender sorts out of doors, in a warm position, by graft- 

 ing them on the Bignonia capreolata. Tecoma radicens 

 used formerly to be called a bignonia ; it is hardy ; and 

 Tecoma grandijlora is nearly so. 



The Cohcea scandens is a climbe of rapid growth, pro- 



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