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REMARKS ON CLIMBING- PLANTS. 
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which exist, aided materially by the excessive porosity of bricks, where 
these are employed, and causing endless trouble, and constant application 
to keep all clean. 
Yet one other remark before I enter upon a resume of varieties worthy 
of cultivation. It should always be distinctly understood that span-roofed 
houses are the best for climbers, and indeed are those alone which afford 
space to afford, by a well-blended contrast, all the beauty they are capable 
of. In such a form of structure, planted at which end they may be, their 
upward-climbing tendencies and inclinations of growth may be accom¬ 
modated. The shoots may be trained across the under side of the roof 
and if needed, again across, making, as before intimated, the most natural 
and best of sun-screens, for plants in a somewhat confined atmosphere. 
Climbers, be it understood, will not grow downward with a tithe of the 
vigour they are capable of exhibiting in a more natural position. 
The following is a list of plants suitable for the stove and greenhouse 
respectively, and they are plants which I do not hesitate to recommend. 
Others there are in great variety, many of which I reject, while of some my 
experience is not sufficient to recommend their being grown in those 
places where room only exists for a selection of the best. 
1. Stove Climbers. 
Allamanaa Hendersoni (true). 
Cissus discolor. 
Clerodendron splendens, and speciosis- 
simurn. 
Combretum purpureum. 
Dipladenia amabilis. 
Ipomoea Leari. 
Lygodium scandens. 
Passiflora edulis and quadrangularis. 
Stephanotis floribunda. 
Stigmaphyllon ciliatum. 
Thunbergia Harrisii. 
2. Greenhouse Climbers. 
Cliantbus puniceus, or splendens. 
Habrothamnus elegans. 
Lapagerias (rose and white). 
Mandevilla suaveolens. 
Passiflora Bellotii. 
Rhynchospermum jasminoides. 
Solanum jasminiflorum. 
Tacsonia Van Yolxemi. 
Tecoma jasminoides splendens. 
Acacia longifolia magnifica. 
Plumbago capensis. 
For back walls in stoves, Ficus repens [stipulata] forms an excellent 
covering, and is remarkably well adapted, where flowering plants are not in 
demand. Such are Bougainvilleas, Hoyas, the pseudo-climber Gloriosa, 
Vanillas, Night-flowered Cereus, Dioscoreas, Ecliites, and Manettias, &c., 
are each very beautiful when ably grown; and if cut flowers are needed 
early, few things afford a more abundant supply when planted against the 
back walls of such houses than do the old single-flowered Camellias, or 
insure, when not in bloom, a more uniform furniture, with their deep green 
leaves. 
For greenhouses in similar positions, perhaps Magnolia fuscata (a 
much-neglected plant) is unsurpassed in the matter of constancy of gar¬ 
niture, and fragrance when in flower. Nor must the lovely Luculias be 
overlooked. They do well in such positions, together with Pleroma elegans, 
Camellias in variety, Bougainvilleas, Citrus, Daphnes, &c., which all afford 
