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flowers to live without the kindly shelter of a 
sunny wall. It is wonderful how much heat h 
wall imparts—not only does it keep away cold 
winds, but it retains so much of the sun’s 
warmth that plants get quite a double share 
of its life-giving rays. But several of the other 
things I have mentioned will do without walls, 
so children who have not that shelter can plant 
them on poles or trellis-work. All the kinds 
of clematis and honeysuckle will thrive well 
grown in this way. 
If you live in the colder, or more especially 
the damper parts of England or Scotland, there 
is a very lovely thing you can plant with 
success, which children in the warm dry South 
will very likely fail to grow, and that is the 
Tropczolum speciosum or flame nasturtium. It 
has bright scarlet flowers in summer, and very 
pretty leaves, grows in thick trailing masses, and 
later in the autumn has sapphire-blue seeds. 
There are still the late autumn months to 
think of, and the wall must look gay then. If 
you have chosen to plant Virginian creeper, 
either the common or the Veitchi kinds, they 
will turn a gorgeous red, but like the trees 
these creepers will lose their glory and only 
their bare stems be left, so it is as well to try 
and have at least one plant which is evergreen 
and does not shed its leaves. Escallonia I 
