November 21, 1903. 
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Views and Reviews. 
Climbing Plants.*" 
For many years past Mr. Arnott’s name 
has been so frequently subscribed to articles 
on various gardening topics that he must now 
appear a well-known friend of the gardening 
fraternity. He writes on various topics, but 
is best known by liis frequent contributions 
on hardy herbaceous plants, alpine®, and 
bulbs, which he cultivates extensively in his 
own garden. Being also a great enthusiast-, 
he manages the floral department- o-f his 
garden mo-stly by his own hands. His -book 
on “ Climbing Plants ” runs to 124 pages, in¬ 
cluding an index, and contains half a. do-zen 
full-page illustrations, of which we consider 
those reproduced from photographs to' be the 
best and clearest. The best o-f them are 
those representing the common Passion¬ 
flower, Clematis Fairy Queen, and the wild 
Clematis (C. Vita-lba). 
In the introductory -of the book he de¬ 
scribes the different methods of climbing -as¬ 
sumed by plants coming under that category. 
Some are twining, others have tendrils, aerial 
roots, pickles, or hooks. In the latter two 
classes the plants are enabled by those means 
to scramble up amongst other vegetation, 
and, though real climbers in a sense, many 
gardeners would fail to see that such was the 
case unless given to making nature study 
observations on such subject®. The winter 
gives instances of most of the different types 
of climbers, except those that fix themselves 
to other objects by the twisting of the leaf¬ 
stalks. These he describes as leaf-twisters, 
and 'they, in our opinion, are no unimportant- 
section, seeing that they include such as the 
species of Clematis and Tropaeolum, with 
some of the Fumitories. 
This method of climbing is of very great 
importance to Clematis, as may be seen in 
the case of our native species, which climbs 
into the top of very tall trees. It would be 
somewhat of a puzzle to understand how the 
plant got there when discovered after the 
lower’ branches of the tree have died away 
* “ rile ftookof Clin Mite Plants and Wall Shrubs." bv S. 
Arnott, FR H.S. John Lane. The Bolley Head, London 
and New York. 1903. Price2s.6d.net. 
owing to the crowding of other trees. It is 
to be presumed that the Clematis commenced 
mounting on its support when the tree was 
young and furnished with branches near the 
ground. The tree increases in height, and so 
doe® the Clematis, so that the latter will con¬ 
tinue to- live and flower in the tree-top so 
long a-s its foliage is e'xposed to sunlight. At 
last the thickened woody stem may be, and 
usually is, entirely without lateral branches 
or foliage, and therefore cannot cling to any¬ 
thing, but. the live branches in the top o-f the 
tree maintain the position of the plant from 
the beginning until the trees- grow too tall for 
the Clematis to follow. This would apply 
only to the very tallest forest trees in this 
country. In the -case of Hollies, the Moun¬ 
tain Ash, Hawthorn, and other similar low- 
growing trees, the Clematis may even outlive 
them by making-such a mass of foliage on the 
top -of the trees as to completely destroy 
their foliage in time. 
In giving a list of climbers it very rarely 
happens that such a twiner as Stropho-lirion 
californicum gets mentioned. It is a member 
of the Lily family, and differs from its rela¬ 
tions, the Bro-diaeas, by having a twining 
-stem. Very few also would look amongst 
the -species of Aconite for climbers, yet some 
of them having twining stems, as in the case 
of Aconitum hemsleyanum. 
In looking through the book, we note that 
the author is fairly up-to-date in nomencla¬ 
ture, but. concerning some of the names there 
are exceptions. In his introduction he 
admits that the “ Index Kewensis ” and the 
“ Kew Hand-Lists ” are followed generally, 
except in some cases where the garden names 
were too firmly fixed to be superseded. This 
idea has been put. forward by many .authors 
who give a similar excuse, but we think it 
would be well when writers of books have 
agreed upon following ithe lead of a. respon¬ 
sible and recognised authority -that they 
should make .a clean sweep of all pet- garden 
names, and use the correct ones, even if it 
was necessary in certain cases to place the 
better known one as a synonym in brackets 
after the correct -one-. 
If this was done, the readers who are now 
familiar with plants would have no difficult 
in recognising their favourites, and many of 
them would be satisfied to know the correct 
