THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 327 



the new growth regulated, a few of the shoots removed, and the 

 others trained in, but not too stiffly. 



In country districts, where there is not much danger of the fruit 

 being stolen, the walls of villas may be devoted to the choicer kinds 

 of fruit trees, the south aspects to grapes, the east and west to 

 apricots or pears, and the north to Morello cherries or plums. If 

 out-door grapes do not ripen readily in the district, the south aspect 

 may also be devoted to pears or apricots. Grrape vines trained over 

 the -walls of a dwelling-house are very pleasing in appearance 

 throughout the summer, and the foliage of the Esperione, one of the 

 best out door kinds, assumes in the autumn tints of the most brilliant 

 description, and produces a startling effect. Grapes that do not 

 mature sufficiently to be eaten are most excellent for tarts, and 

 make very nice light wines. 



The walls of the Woodstock Rectory are covered chiefly with 

 the Esperione and other grapes, and from these, Mr. Robert Eenn, 

 the well-known raiser and cultivator of potatoes, makes annually 

 large quantities of most excellent wines, sparkling and still. I have 

 had an opportunity of tasting them upon more than one occasion, 

 and at the great horticultural exhibition held at Birmingham in 

 1872 was on a committee formed to discuss the merits of Mr. Eenn's 

 wines, of which some twenty samples were exhibited, and they were 

 unanimously pronounced to be of most excellent quality. Since 

 that year Mr. Fenn has been awarded a gold medal for wines exhi- 

 bited by request of Her Majesty's Commissioners at the Interna- 

 tional Exhibition. I mention this merely to show what can be done 

 with out-door grapes. 



I will now proceed to an enumeration of a few subjects that are 

 known to be thoroughly good, and which are in fact the best in their 

 respective classes. 



Ampelopis liederacea, better known as the Virginian Creeper, is 

 equally adapted for town and country. All the laterals which hang 

 down should be cut close back to the first bud from the base at the 

 winter pruning or the plant will become unsightly, and large por- 

 tions perhaps fall down in the course of the summer. A. tricus- 

 pidata has a more slender habit than the preceding, and smaller 

 leaves, and is most valuable, as it adheres to walls as firmly as the 

 ivy, and is well suited for quickly covering low walls and small 

 dwellings. One of the very beat of hardy climbers. 



Berierls Darwlnii is exceeding good for training over low walls, 

 say of three or four feet high. It has small shining leaves, and in 

 the spring becomes sheeted with yellow flowers. 



B'lgnonia radicans major is good for covering large spaces. The 

 growth is robust, the foliage handsome, and large clusters of tubular 

 crimson flowers are produced at the tips of the branches. It roots 

 to the wall much the same as the ivy, and the shoots must not be 

 shortened until the winter pruning, when they should be cut back 

 to one or two eyes. 



Geanothus azureus is like the Berberis above mentioned, useful 

 for low boundary walls. 



Clematis. Nearly all these are suitable, provided the growth ia 



Novembftr. 



