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like, and speed, but still a light-weight 
climber, your answer is THUNBERGIA 
GREGORI (much superior to T. Gibsoni, 
which is more commonly seen): this makes 
a gaudy hanging basket in the hottest sun, 
a good ground cover, and is effective on 
low redwood fences or walls; blooms most 
of year quickly from gallon cans. THUN- 
BERGIA GRANDIFLORA, the Blue Sky 
Flower, on the other hand, is a high-climb- 
ing subject, rather a‘heavy vine with poor 
winter foliage—but from midsummer to 
late fall its masses of really sky blue trum- 
pets are quite a sight in a warm, well- 
watered situation protected from cold 
winds—on a heavy high fence or climbing 
into a large open Jacaranda—where there 
is little winter frost. The BOUGAINVILLEA 
varieties we ve mentioned many times, but 
let us commend you again to Rose Queen, 
a really robust rose with coral and cerise 
shadings in each flower bract. Two only 
slightly known varieties of the PASSION 
VINE are Passiflora mollissima, pale pink 
and tough and extremely rampant (plant 
at the top of a cut in hillside and let it 
curtain down and cover the bare rock wall): 
and P. Jamesonii, a salmon relative of 
the above with somewhat more limited 
range of space but still wide-spreading. 
All Passion vines need chlordane spray oc- 
casionally to apprehend caterpillars. One 
glorious white-flowering vine, slow-growing 
and little known, is OXERA PULCHELLA, 
for sun or part shade, trailing or kept as 
a sprawling shrub with excellent dark green 
foliage. Among the most beautiful of all 
vines is one for part shade and perfectly 
drained soil—STEPHANOTIS FLORIBUN- 
DA, evergreen, glossy, with wonderfully 
fragrant white flowers in the warm season. 
Also we are particularly happy to advise 
that we once again have the incomparable 
evergreen CLEMATIS ARMANDI. This is 
NOT summer flowering (usually March] 
but anyone who knows the beautiful pat- 
tern of pointed dark ribbed leaves will 
love it even without bloom. Most vines are 
$1 to $4.50; Clematis armandi $7.50. 
And now for the HANDLING OF VINES 
once you get them home. Those to go on 
walls should have good stout wires installed 
before vines are planted. If the wall is 
stucco, brick or stone, get cement nails or 
stucco nails from the lumber yard or hard- 
ware store. Usually a series of horizontal 
stretches of wire a foot apart will be neat, 
sturdy and permanent; all you need is 
something firm to tie the vines to. Trel- 
lises are seldom satisfactory unless a part 
of the structure on which the vine is to 
climb. As vines grow don't be afraid to 
prune, thin, shape and train. You can 
usually limit the coverage to the area you 
wish to decorate, but take out the oldest 
canes occasionally and don't forget that 
vines, like shrubbery and trees, appreciate 
the sun getting down into their middles. 
JUNECISSEE ES it Mew? © OmmEOR 
MULCHING most of your plants to re- 
tain moisture and improve the soil at the 
same time. An excellent mulch for almost 
all kinds of plants, particularly Roses, Birds 
of Paradise, annuals and most shrubbery, 
is two parts Georgia peat, two parts steer 
manure, and one part Humisite. This costs 
more than straight manure, but it also lasts 
much longer and is much more beneficial. 
SUMMER AND FALL ANNUALS which 
can still be planted include ASTERS, single 
and double (the singles are usually easier 
to grow); MARIGOLDS, tall and low; ZIN- 
NIAS, tall medium (Peppermint Stick), and 
short; AGERATUM, perhaps the best and 
longest blooming of all summer edgings 
for either full sun or part shade; and 
TORENIA, a little blue and violet flower 
for considerable shade. 
High on the list of ''best'’ PERENNIALS 
is the GAILLARDIA. Fine for cutting and 
for garden color in either pure yellow 
("Sun God'') or red-and-yellow (Portola 
hybrids}, this sun-loving subject knows few 
if any pests, can be planted almost any 
month of the year, and once established 
blooms most of the year—available in flats 
at 50 cents a dozen or full grown in bloom 
in gallon cans at 85 cents a piece, to be 
set two feet apart. Another fine deep 
yellow is the Giant Yarrow, ACHILLEA 
FILIPENDULINA, to five feet and three 
feet across the second year, ideal for really 
long-stemmed bouquets, and the perfect 
subject for drying for winter color—gal- 
lon cans only 85 cents. Still a different 
yellow (or almost any color) is available in 
GAZANIA, no good for cutting but fine 
for mass color and drought and little care. 
Get in the habit of collecting Gazanias; 
pick up an odd color every time you're in 
the nursery. If you're looking for rock 
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