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All the Honeysuckles are beautiful in the garden, though none 

 of them, except the foregoing, and what are familiarly called the 

 " Trumpet Honeysuckles," are fit for the walls of a cottage, because 

 they harbour insects. Nothing, however, can well be prettier than 

 the red and yellow Trumpet Honeysuckles, when planted together, 

 and allowed to interweave their branches, contrasting the delicate 

 straw colour of the flower-tubes of one with the deep coral-red hue 

 of those of the other ; and they bloom with a welcome prodigality 

 from April to December. 



Where you want to produce a bold and picturesque effect with 

 a Vine, nothing will do it more rapidly and completely than our na- 

 tive Grapes. They arc precisely adapted to the ])orch of the farm- 

 house, or to cover any building, or part of a building, M'here expres- 

 sion of strengtli rather than of delicacy is sought after. 



Next to the Grape-vine, the boldest and most striking of hardy 

 creepers is the Dutchman's Pipe (Aristoluchia sipho). It is a grand 

 twining climber, and will canopy over a large arbour in a short time, 

 and make a shade under it so dense that not a ray of pure sunshine 

 will ever find its way through. Its gigantic circular leaves, of a 

 rich green, form masses such as delight a painter's eye, — so broad 

 and effective arc they ; and as for its flowers, which are about an 

 inch and a half long, — why, they are so like a veritable meerschaum 

 — the pipe of a true Dutchman from " Faderland" — that you can- 

 not but laugh outright at the first sight of them. 



And now, having glanced at the best of the climbers and twiners, 

 properly so called (all of which need a little training and support- 

 ing), let us take a peep at those climbing shrubs that seize hold of 

 a wall, building, or fence, of themselves, by throwing out tlieir little 

 rootlets into the stone or brick wall as they grow up, so that it is 

 as hard to break up any attachments of theirs, when they get fairly 

 established, as it was to part Hector and Andromache. The prin- 

 cipal of these are the true Ivy of Europe, the Virginia Creeper or 

 American Ivy, and the Trumpet Creepers {Bignonias). 



These are all fine, picturesque Vines, not to be surpassed for cer- 

 tain eflects by any thing else that will grow out of doors in our cli- 

 mate. You must remember, however, that, as they are wedded for 

 life to whatever they cling to, they must not be planted by the sides 

 of wooden cottages, which are to be kept in order by a fresh coat of 

 paint now and then. 



Certainly the finest of all this class of climbers is the European 

 Ivy. Such rich masses of glossy deep green foliage, such fine con- 

 trasts of light and shade, and such a wealth of associations, is pos- 

 sessed by no other plant ; the Ivy, to which the ghost of all the storied 

 past alone tells its tale of departed greatness ; the confidant of old 

 ruined castles and abbeys ; the bosom companion of solitude itself, — 



" Deep in your most sequestered bower 

 Let me at last recUne, 

 Where solitude, mild, modest flower, 

 Leans on her ivy\l shrine." 



True to these instincts, the Ivy does not seem to be naturalised so 



