so 



THE GREEN-HOUSE. 



we have recommended, and where there is a separate 

 house for vines, this is doubtless the best mode. In 

 a small green-house, however, it is better to place 

 them in subordinate situations, as at the ends, or 

 against such props or pillars as may be introduced to 

 support the roof. It sometimes happens also, that 

 they may be grown on iron rods fixed to the stage, or 

 forming arches over the path, or a sort of arbour or 

 porch immediately within the doors of entrance. But 

 wherever they are placed, the great object is to take 

 care that they do as little injury as possible by their 

 shade ; and, as it is very difficult to avoid this, the 

 fewer that are planted the better. Many of the sorts 

 may be grown in pots, and trained round a cone of 

 rods or wires fixed to an iron basement or saucer on 

 which the pot stands. 



The climbing and twining green-house plants 

 which we would recommend are the following — 



Hoya carnosa, B. M. 788, which has red and white 

 flowers in June, and the odour of honey. 



Glycine sinensis, B. M. 2083, with fine blueish 

 pea-flowers during the same month. 



Bigndnia grandifiora, B. M. 1398, B. R. 418, with 

 large scarlet trumpet- shaped flowers in July. 



Cohcea scandens, B. M. 851, which has purple 

 flowers, and is in bloom all the summer. Great care 

 must be taken to keep it within bounds, otherwise it 

 will overrun everything in the course of one season. 

 It has been known to grow at the rate of a foot a day, 

 for upwards of two months together. 



