Wall Plants
These are very numerous, if the whole of the subjects requiring or benefiting by wall accommodation is considered. Kitchen-garden walls are requisite for the cultivation of fruit-trees that will not succeed in the open; and these are rarely given up to other plants, excepting such as Tomatoes, which, in favourable aspects, succeed during summer in any intervening spaces. The term Wall Plants is usually meant to have reference to those subjects which, from their natural habit of growth, require a wall; but it may also include very many others that, from their quick-growing nature, may be utilised for rapidly covering a large surface, or, from being more or less tender, are cultivated with greater certainty, and brought to greater perfection, by the shelter which a wall affords. Walls in greenhouses, stoves, and most other glass structures, may also be utilised for the production of some crop, or covered with some plant to impart a much better appearance than would otherwise be the case. Of hardy plants that succeed admirably on walls, the following, amongst many others, may be mentioned: Aristolochia Sipho, Chimon-anthus fragrans, many species and hybrids of Clematis, Cotoneasters, Crataegus Pyracantha, Escallonias, Euonymus, Forsythia suspensa, Garrya elliptica, Ivies, Jasminum officinale and J. revolutum, Loniceras, Magnolias, Pyrus japonica, Roses, Tecoma radicans, hardy Vines, Virginian Creepers, Wistaria sinensis, &c. Camellias are some-times grown very successfully as Wall Plants in greenhouses; and apart from their flowers, the foliage is always attractive. Strong-growing kinds of Tea Roses do well on walls in any cool house, or on the back wall in a peach-house. Fuchsias, Heliotropes, Jasminums, Passifloras, &c., are well-known wall-furnishing plants. Ficus stipulata will cover a wall in a cool house or stove with green verdure as dense as Ivy does outside; it is, therefore, a very desirable subject.