Jcs* W. 1813. 
THE GARDENERS’ MAGAZINE. 
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tender climbers in the 
SOUTH-WEST. 
The best of half-hardy flowering climbers 
is without doubt, Solaniim jasminoides, 
whose attractive qualities are widely re- 
coimised in Devon and Cornwall, where it 
is largely grown by rich and poor alike. 
Its white flower-clusters are extremely 
beautiful, and were these borne merely 
for the space of a month or six weeks 
would entitle the plant to a foremost place 
amongst climsbers. As a matter of fact 
the solanum enjoys the most extended 
blooming period of any flowering climber, 
commencing to expand its blossoms to¬ 
wards the end of April and early days 
of May, flowering in ever-increasing pro¬ 
fusion* through the summer months, and 
reaching the zenith df its display in Sep¬ 
tember, when it forms a veritable sheet of 
snowy blossoms, while it often retains a 
portion of its flowers until Christmas or 
later in open seasons. 
The laipageria succeeds admirably on a 
north or north-west wall in the open in 
South Devon and Cornwall, and long trails 
of waxy-petalled tuibular blossoms, wdiite 
and red, may often be cut as late as No¬ 
vember. The white-flowered Physianthus 
albons also grows freely in some localities, 
spreading over a wall or sheltered cliff face. 
vStaimtonia latifolia, although bearing 
somewhat inconspicuous flowers among its 
leathery leaves, is valuable on account of 
the exquisite fragrance emitted by its clus¬ 
tering blooms in the early spring. One 
neighbouring house is covered to the roof 
with this stauntonia, and in its flowering 
season the perfume from its blossoms fills 
the surrounding air with sweet odour. In 
the autumn the long, sausage-shaped seed 
pods, dull crimson in hue, are freely pro¬ 
duced. Tacsonia m.ollissima, a native of 
Quito, is fairly hardy in Southern Corn¬ 
wall, where it makes rampant growth, and 
bears countless long-tubed, pink flowers. 
The newdy-int rod need Po-lygonum Bald- 
schuanicum is quite hardy, and a plant of 
great decorative merit, making rapid 
growth, and being admirably adapted for 
covering rough trellisiwork or old trees, 
which it will clothe with abundant leafage 
that for many weeks is shrouded’ in a 
wealth of delicate milk-white flower 
clusters. Akebia quinata is a perennial 
flowering climber, bearing sweetly-scented 
flowers of maroon hue. 
In specially-sheltered sites in the So nth- 
'' cst three beautiful flowering climbers 
may be grown on w^arm south walls. The 
these is Plumbago eapensis, 
which bears pale bine flow^ers. A 
plant of this growing at the foot of a 
towering cliff, by which it is protected on 
nc north and east, has passed through 
^veral winters without any artificial shel- 
^ring, and in the early autumn is a sheet 
pal^ blue. The second is Mandevilla 
aveolens, from Buenos Ayres, a hand- 
wvf ^^nhouse climber, bearing large 
^ c blossoms, deliciously perfumed, in 
^ spots this grows 
h ^ well in the open. The third 
^ ivy-leaved pelargonium, which, in 
largely used as a wall 
fba 4 - ^ seen from illustrations 
usiiQii appeared in these pages. It 
sufficiently hardy to with- 
allv ^ff^ts of any but an exception- 
a sometimes attains 
vari!+^ V twenty feet. The best 
CroiKil ^ ^ ^ climber is Madame 
are'mo^ blossoms 
of tenrll when spreading a mantle 
4 1 colour over an expanse of wall, 
strict !^ .^^^illariiim, although not 
y peaking a climber, may be grown 
against a wall with its main grow^ths trained 
in, when its ardiing flower-laden shoots 
bend outwards gracefully, studded along 
their length with their crimson and yellow 
blooms, which are borne in quantity 
thronghont the w hole summer and autumn, 
and well into the winter months. 
The Flame Nasturtium (Tropseolum spe- 
ciosum), a native of Chili, is without a 
when in full flower, one of the loveliest 
plants it is possible to imagine. It growls 
well in the open in Devon and Cornwall, 
and when a forty-feet length of wall is 
entirely covered with its large w'hite 
flowers the effect is indescribably beautiful. 
This note is far from exhaustriug the list 
of charming half-hardy flowering climbers 
and other plants that may be utilised for 
hybri 
BOSE MISS FLOBA MITTEN. 
,tual-flow«rinff rambler, with large clusters of . A 
■ ^tween B. Brunoni and K. camna. A.M., B.H.S., May 14. Mr. J. Elliott, 
Hassocks. 
rival in the brilliance of its vermilion 
flower trails. It is, however, seen to 
better advantage in the north than in the 
south of England. It is specially adapted 
for di'aping yews and otlier dark-leaved 
evergreens with its vivid flowers. Tlie 
New Zealand Clematis indivisa lobata is, 
beautifying wall and trellis in the warmer 
districts of our islands, but sufficient have 
been mentioned to give an idea of the 
scope afforded by this branch of gardening 
in the south-west. 
Wyndham Fitzherbert. 
Kingswear. 
