. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. CLIMBING PLANTS. 377 house climber is well adapted for outside cultivation in summer, and should be placed in a sunny skel- tered position, when its bright deep blue flowers are produced in profusion for a considerable time. It is readily propagated by cuttings. Tecoma radicans. â The Trumpet Flower, .sometimes known as Bignonia radicans. A tall, handsome climber, witk brigkt green pinnate leaves, and very skowy orange and scarlet flowers, wkick are produced in tke summer montks. Rootlets are produced from tke joints of tke stem, by which it supports i
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. CLIMBING PLANTS. 377 house climber is well adapted for outside cultivation in summer, and should be placed in a sunny skel- tered position, when its bright deep blue flowers are produced in profusion for a considerable time. It is readily propagated by cuttings. Tecoma radicans. â The Trumpet Flower, .sometimes known as Bignonia radicans. A tall, handsome climber, witk brigkt green pinnate leaves, and very skowy orange and scarlet flowers, wkick are produced in tke summer montks. Rootlets are produced from tke joints of tke stem, by which it supports itself. It succeeds well against a warm wall or sunny bank. It may be propagated by cut- tings. Thunbergia alata.â A handsome annual, which succeeds well in a sunny situation during the summer montks. Tke slender twin- ing stems skould be provided witk a few kgkt sticks to ckmb upon. A light rick soil is tke most suitable. Tropseolum. â Tkree species of tkis highly orna- mental genus, with their many varieties, deserve men- tion here. T. aduncum.âThe Canary â Creeper, sometimes known as T. peregr in urn, from its rambkng kabit, and T. Canariense, an erroneous and misleading name. It is a ckarming plant, and suit- able for covering walls, palings, balconies, rustic arckes, and many otker similar situations. Tke leaves are small, witk five rounded lobes, and tke brigkt yellow flowers are beautifully fringed. Tke seeds skould be sown in Marck or April, in good soil, and very skady positions skould be avoided. It is a native of New Grenada. T. majus.âTkis plant often goes under tke name of Nasturtium, and it is one of tke best of all plants for tke summer coverings of old palings or similar objects. It kkes a good soil and a sunny position, and witk these requisites little is requked beyond planting the seeds in March or April, and providing the necessary supports. A few twiggy branches of trees may be placed for the plant to climb upon, or keep it close to a wooden fence or w
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