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OBSERVATIONS ON CLIMBING PLANTS. 



(Continued from page 56.) 



The following speoies of the more showy kinds of hardy climbers may be 

 advantageously planted against and trained to a wall; that protection, however, 

 is not essential to their producing their flowers in perfection, as they will succeed 

 equally well against an open trellis ; or they may be planted singly, so as to 

 ascend a pole or any device of fancy wire-work. Apias tuberosus ; Aristolochia 

 pubescens and sipho ; Clematis alpina, campanifiora, fiammula, orientalis, sibi- 

 rica and triternata ; Periploca grseca ; Rosa boursalt, Bengal fiorida, ruga, 

 Maria Leonides, and all other rambling roses. 



The following will seldom succeed well except against a wall, where they are 

 very ornamental ; some of them attain a considerable height, and are therefore 

 well adapted for planting against dwelling-houses, particularly where they are 

 wished to be covered : viz. Alstrcemeria acutifolia and hirtella ; Bigrumia radi- 

 cans ; Baussingaultia basilloides ; Caprifolium flavum, fiexuosum, japonicum and 

 sempervirens ; clematis fiorida and fiorida pleno ; Hosa Banksise, Banksise lutea, 

 Brunonii, Grevillea and multiflora ; Wistaria frutescens and sinensis ; passiflora 

 cserulea, and hybrids. 



In addition to these hardy kinds, the wall and trellis may be enlivened during 

 summer by many half-hardy climbers, which, after being gradually hardened, 

 may be planted out in May, and if placed in good soil, most of them will con- 

 tinue flowering until cut off by the autumn frosts. The more showy of these are, 

 Calampilis scaber ; Cobcea scandens ; Lophospermum erubescens, scandens, and 

 volubile; Maurandya antirrhiniflora, Barclayana, and semperflorens ; Mutiora 

 latifolia ; Loasa lateritia ; Sollya heterophylla ; Tropceolum minus pleno, penta- 

 phyllum, tricolorum and tuberosum. 



As few walls are entirely covered with climbers without a mixture of other 

 showy plants that are not climbers, it may not be out of place to give a list of 

 such plants as are best adapted to that purpose : they are, Cercis siliquestrum ; 

 Daphne altaica, collina, tinifolia, and Tarton-raira ; Edwardsia grandiflora ; 

 Eriobotrya japonica ; Jasminurn revolutum ; Madura aurantiaca ; Magnolia gran- 

 diflora, grandiflora var. exoniensis, conspicua, and. obovata ; Ligustrum chinensis ; 

 Punica granatum, Sec. 



All these plants will do in any light garden soil, which ought to be trenched 

 over two feet deep before planting ; or should it be necessary, from the nature 

 of the soil, for a border to be made for them, it may be two feet deep, composed 

 of three-fourths loam, one-fourth peat, with about one-eighth of sharp pit or 

 river sand. 



