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THE GARDENING WORLD 
April 24, 1909. 
Tropaeolums in Wall Gardening. 
Amongst the numerous plants which are 
suitable for wall gardening the possessors 
of gardens should not overlook the suit¬ 
ability of Tropaeolums for this purpose 
and the many uses to which they may be 
put. For instance, many gardens would 
be improved by shutting out certain scenes 
and that could resdily be done by build¬ 
ing a wall either of new bricks or with 
old bricks or even broken or half bricks. 
In order to give the full length, of our 
season the best plan is to raise the Tro¬ 
paeolums in a cold frame so as to be 
Fig. 1. Rearing Tropaeolums in a box. 
ready for planting out when our climate 
is really suitably warm and after all dan¬ 
ger of frost is over. No. 1 in the accom¬ 
panying series of drawings shows a box 
of young Tropaeolums. Readers may be 
reminded that they transplant readily 
from a box to where they may be re¬ 
quired. 
No. 2 shows how a brick wall may be 
budt with t'vo lights of bricks set on edge 
at the top so as to hold soil in which to 
grow the plants. No. 3 shows this cavity 
filled with soil and planted with the 
young Tropaeolums. For a wall of some 
height the tall Nasturtium (Tropaeolum 
majus or some suitable variety of it) 
should be planted to give the necessary 
length of stem to hang down and cover 
the wall. To ensure success good sup¬ 
plies of w'ater should be given after the 
plants are well established to induce a 
considerable length of stem. 
Fig. 2. .Wall of bricks for growing Tro- 
paeolums. 
No. 4 shows a little different plan of 
making a space to hold soil. The brick 
wall is built up in the usual way and two 
boards are nailed to the bricks or between 
the seams in any convenient way. For 
instance, pegs of wood could be inserted 
beneath some of the bricks, so that these 
boards could be nailed upon them. This 
provides a greater amount of space for 
soil, as the boards take up much less 
room than bricks set on edge. Indeed, 
Fig. j. Another method of providing 
space on the top for Tropaeolums. 
when fixed on the wall in this way they 
give the whole width of the wall for soil 
and the planting of the Tropaeolum. 
No. 5 shows the side elevation of a wall 
when the Tropaeolums have grown and 
hang down in position, when they should 
be at their best and flowering freely. 
Scarlet varieties such as Ball of Fire, are 
very effective as they naturally hang 
down much more readily than the com¬ 
mon one. 
A similar contrivance for the cultiva¬ 
tion of Tropaeolums may be built of o_ld 
bricks such as have previously been used 
in building houses and spoiled bricks 
from the kiln, which may readily be had 
Fig. 4. The young Tt opaeolums planted 
out. 
Fig. 5. The Tropaeolums after they have 
covered the wall. 
cheaply. In building a wall with broken 
bricks, soil could really fill up the in¬ 
terior of the space from the ground line 
upwards. Holes could be left here and 
there between the bricks all the way up, 
and, of course, Tropaeolums could be 
planted on the top. By this method of 
growing them, dwarf Nasturtiums (Tro¬ 
paeolum minus) could be employed where 
the grower prefers the same. Young 
plants can be inserted in the spaces at 
various levels on the wall so that this will 
ultimately get covered with dwarf plants 
instead of being covered entirely by tall 
ones hanging from the top. The dwarf 
ones take very kindly to this mode of 
culture and there would be less difficulty 
in getting the wall covered even in a dry 
season. 
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A MOVEMENT has been inaugurated 
amongst those interested in the encour¬ 
agement of horticulture in the district 
and in the development of the township 
generally for the holding of a flower show 
in Kingstown, Dublin, on a convenient 
date during the summer. 
The Grass=Leaved Pandanus. 
(Pandanus graminifolius). 
Those who have command of a warm 
house that can be kept at 50 to 60 degs. 
in winter will be able to grow this Pan¬ 
danus. It is used for the decoration of 
warm houses and for table decoration. 
It is the most graceful of all the types 
of Pandanus grown for this purpose. The 
leaves are very narrow, arching grace¬ 
fully, hence they have been compared to 
grass. These leaves attain a length of 
12 in. to r8 in. though the plant will be 
most useful for table decoration in the 
smaller state. It grows very slowly, how¬ 
ever, and for that reason remains in useful 
size fora much longer time than the larger 
leaved sorts in cultivation. Propagation 
is effected by taking off the side shoots 
or suckers and inserting them singly as 
cuttings in pots of sandy soil. These 
should be put in a propagating case or in 
a place where they can get a bottom heat 
of 60 deg. to 70 deg. 
