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variety, with flowers of a bright rosy crimson, succeeded by 
remarkably large haws of a rich cherry red. Rugosa alba has 
white flowers but is not as strong a grower. 
We cannot pass without a word on three or four of our hardy 
climbing shrubs. The American ivy, or Virginia creeper, has 
beautiful digitate leaves, that become rich crimson in autumn. It 
is a rapid grower and throws out tendrils and roots at the joints, by 
which it fastens itself to anything it touches. It affords shade 
quickly and is one of the finest vines for covering stone walls, 
verandas or trunks of trees. 
Clematis Virginiana, the American white clematis, is a rapid 
climbing plant, growing to the height of twenty feet, produc- 
ing auimmense profusion of white flowers in August. 
Aristolochia sipho, Dutchman’s pipe, is a native species of rapid 
growth, with magnificent light green leaves ten to twelve inches in 
diameter and curious pipe-shaped, yellowish-brown flowers. 
Celastrus scandens is a native plant of twining habit, with fine 
large leaves and yellow flowers, and is particularly adapted for 
running up into dead or dying trees, as it grows ten to twelve feet 
in a season. 
If you will allow me to use the term “shrubby evergreens”’— 
meaning, thereby, the lower growing kinds—I would by all means 
advise a generous plantation of these, the most beautiful of all 
shrubs for the north. Unharmed by winter’s rigors, they are ever 
with us, cheering us with their green when all else is leafless and 
clothed in white. So let us plant graceful groups of these in which 
will figure specimens of the dwarf mountain pine, juniper savin 
and the Siberian and pyramidal arbor vitae, all of them beautiful 
and hardy. 
Let us not overlook the back yard in our scheme, for here, withal, 
our steps most often lead us. This is an excellent place for experi- 
ment with decorative shrubs and for testing our hobbies. On the 
limits of the yard I would plant a hedge of caragana, the Siberian 
pea tree. This grows toa height of eight and ten feet and is a 
beautiful shrubby tree, with small pinnate leaves of the same 
character as those of the acacias but much smaller and bearing small, 
delicate yellow flowers in early June. With the rare green of its 
foliage, this is not only a beautiful shrub in the hedge but makes a 
first-class individual ornament as well. 
And, finally, let us retire to the shady side of the house and give 
ourselves over to a little sentiment. Here where June’s midday sun 
shines warm and radiant, where the buzz and hum of the merry 
bumble-bee lures us to pause and give ear to nature’s voices; here 
where evening zephyrs waft sweet fragrance through open window 
bars, letus not forget those good old time friends of ours, the honey- 
suckle and the lilac. ; 
