This has not been found a good nurseryman's plant, as it takes too long to get started on a rapid run, and the American mind takes more stock in something like the gourd of Jonah that will cover a house top in a single night. Still it will have its turn some day in popularity. We are reminded of it by the following slip from the Gardeners' Magazine :

" The climbing hydrangea has the merit of great hardness, and will be found a useful addition to the list of plants suitable for training up the stems and covering large wall spaces. It is said to attain a height of fifty feet when able to obtain the needful support. Upon this point I am not able to offer an opinion, but judging from the rapid progress it makes when planted in a border of rich soil there would probably be no difficulty in very quickly covering walls ranging from twenty to twenty-five feet high. The flowers are at first disappointing, for one naturally enough expects heads of bloom approaching in size and effectiveness those of the common hydrangea, H. horten-sis and the well-known H. paniculata. The flower heads are of large size, but as but few are sterile they are exceedingly thin, and less attractive than could be desired. The trusses are very similar to those of H. speciosa variegata, and the flowers are white. The climbing hydrangea will be found in catalogues under the name of Schizophragma hydrangioides".