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TENDER CLIMBERS FOR SUMMER PURPOSES. 
Nets of string or wire, or trellises of slender wood, can be spread over one or 
two of the beds of a flower-garden, and the former kept sufficiently above the earth 
by forked sticks stuck in the ground at short distances from each other. Dwarf 
climbers may then be planted in the beds, and allowed to trail over the trellis, or 
be aided in doing so by an occasional attachment. 
Poles, again, constitute a ready and elegant means of supporting tender climbers, 
whether they stand on lawns, at the backs of borders, or in the midst of flower- 
beds. They may be simple, or in groups of three or four, and connected by cross 
bars or pieces of string. And where a slight hedge or line of demarcation is needed 
during summer alone, a row of poles, similar to those used in the kitchen-garden 
for scarlet-runner beans, will answer the end as well, probably, as a regular trellis. 
An improvement on straight and unbranched poles consists, however, in stakes 
like those just alluded to, but having all their branches left upon them, or merely 
the longest of them shortened a little. One of these, placed by the side of a 
climbing plant, with trifling subsequent attention to see that the main shoot or the 
branches do not lose their hold of it too soon, will lead to the production of a specimen 
as graceful and interesting as can readily be conceived of. 
Numerous as are the devices we have described for sustaining climbers, we 
might notice many more did our space permit. At present, we shall confine 
ourselves to the mention of one other, which must not be despised for its rudeness 
and simplicity, since it is an exceedingly good way of treating species that have 
many stems, or that branch freely. It is to place three or four rough and branching 
stakes in the ground around the specimen, and let the latter cling to them and 
cover them in the manner most natural to it. The sticks should not be more than 
three feet high, and unless the plant be disposed to ramble considerably, it must be 
assisted in the arrangement of its branches, or induced to develop lateral shoots by 
having its leading ones stopped. 
Our promised list shall now be furnished. We insert it alphabetically, to 
make reference easier; and omit all descriptive particulars, as they can be obtained 
without difficulty in any catalogue. 
Campanula pyramidalis 
Cobaea macrostemma 
— scundens 
— stipulacea 
Convolvulus speciosus 
Eccremocarpus scaber 
Lathyrus Armitageanus 
— sylvestris (hardy) 
— tingitanus (hardy) 
Loasa lateritia 
— Herbertii 
Lophospermum erubescens 
— spectabile 
— scandens 
Manettia cordifolia 
Maurandya Barclayana 
— pulchella 
Pentstemon argutus 
Philibertia gracilis 
Rhodochiton volubile 
Thunbergia alata 
— — alba 
— aurantiaca 
— other varieties of alata 
TropEGolum majus atrosanguineum 
— Moritzianum 
— pentaphyllum 
— peregrinum 
— tuberosum 
Tweedia cserulea 
