CLIMBING PLANTS. By WILLIAM WATSON, Curator of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. With Introduction by W. ROBINSON. These will be followed by volumes on Trees and Shrubs, Window Gardens, Pseonies, Primulas, Cucumbers, Melons, Bedding Plants, Hardy Herbaceous Plants, Ferns, Tomatoes, Bulbous Plants, Peaches and Nectarines, Vines, Stoveand Greenhouse Plants, c. PLATE I Frontispiece PASSIFLORA CCERULEA CONSTANCE ELLIOTT ex With Introduction by J. Robinson Author of The English Flower Garden 91 CHAP. CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION........ i I. CLIMBING PLANTS IN GARDENS AND IN NATURE . 7 II. HARDY CLIMBERS 12 III. GREENHOUSE CLIMBERS 24 IV. STOVE CLIMBERS 28 V. CONSTRUCTION OF PERGOLAS 31 VI. CLIMBERS FOR VERANDAHS, HOUSE WALLS, AND ARBOURS 35 VII. CLIMBERS ON TREES 38 VIII. CLIMBING ROSES 40 IX. CLEMATIS 45 X. IVIES 56 XL VINES 58 XII. ORNAMENTAL GOURDS 61 XIII. AROIDS 67 XIV. CLIMBING ORCHIDS 70 XV. ALPHABETICAL LIST OF GENERA . 73 INDEX 124 395333