Hedge-forming and Climbing Annuals 
some warm, sheltered position. They are not 
necessarily annuals at all, but, being natives 
of tropical countries, have to be treated as 
half-hardy annuals with us. Of these the 
boldest in growth is Cobcea scandens, a strikingly 
handsome plant, although the flowers are of a 
rather dull purple colour. Maurandya Bar- 
clayana is a plant of refined beauty, with 
delicate foliage and numerous Foxglove-shaped 
flowers of a good purple colour. Ipomcea rubro- 
ccerulea is the lovely blue Convolvulus known 
as Heavenly Blue. Eccremocarpus scaber has 
loose racemes of orange and scarlet bloom. It 
is a vigorous grower, and makes a fine show 
until its beauty is destroyed by frost. 
Many of the climbing plants suited for 
growing as hedges can be used with advantage 
in other ways. Sweet Peas when in flower 
borders are generally placed at the back, 
supported by upright pea-sticks, but they can 
also be brought forward and kept lower by 
fixing the supporting spray in a slanting position 
at a very acute angle with the ground line, 
so allowing the Peas to be trained forward. 
Such a way of guiding the Peas makes a pleasant 
method of covering a sloping bank, and by 
some such contrivance many a waste or un- 
sightly place about a garden may be made 
enjoyable. The pale yellow Canary Creeper 
may be happily treated in the same way. In 
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