. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. CLIMBING PLANTS. 28s have recourse to the Creeping Fig (Fiacs repens). It has small leaves, and it clings like ivy to a wall or to rocks, and it is useful in a situation where flowering climbers will not grow. Several Tropaeolums are grown at my garden. T. Jarrattii is a plant with a bulbous root; it flowers in the greenhouse in early spring. It requires cool treatment, otherwise it is apt to be attacked with the aphis and die down. It is interesting to see a little bul
. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. CLIMBING PLANTS. 28s have recourse to the Creeping Fig (Fiacs repens). It has small leaves, and it clings like ivy to a wall or to rocks, and it is useful in a situation where flowering climbers will not grow. Several Tropaeolums are grown at my garden. T. Jarrattii is a plant with a bulbous root; it flowers in the greenhouse in early spring. It requires cool treatment, otherwise it is apt to be attacked with the aphis and die down. It is interesting to see a little bulb, from the size of a marble to that of a hen's &g'g, throw out a slender stem, which grows till it completely surrounds a large wire globe, two feet in diameter, and then becomes covered with flowers at all points. There is another tropseolum, the T. edulis, which is sold as an esculent at the Palais Royal in Paris. I brought it over, but it has never blossomed. There are other tropaeolums valuable for winter blossoming ; and one, called Fire-ball, adorns the Poor Man's house in winter and in early spring, affording abundance of lovely blossoms. The plant, after its winter flowering, may be planted out of doors. It can be readily propagated by cuttings. Whilst I was on a visit to Scotland, I was charmed with a climber which was trained to the wall of a manse in the valley of the Don. I had hardly uttered my praises when, with the natural kindness of the Scotch people, a plant was placed at my disposal. I brought it home in triumph, as pleased to receive it as the donor was to give it. |_It was the T. speciosum (fig. 589)- ^^^ j ~7f^ C^ It is a South American creeper, not in extensive cultivation, but, as I afterwards found, is for Fig. 589.—Tropseolum Fig. mo.—Canary sale in the Scotch nurseries. speciosum. Creeper. It is a truly lovely climber, with a scarlet flower and slender stem; every garden should have a plant. The Canary Creeper (T. canariense, fig. 590) is a u
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