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noisseur to find any vine that will surpass it. The other 

 rose is wichuriana, from Japan, which makes, on the 

 other hand, a thick, carpet-like, spreading mass of small, 

 dark-green leaves, and seizes quickly on the surrounding 

 ground, studding the surface of its foliage with a pro- 

 fusion of small white and yellow-stemmed flowers. 

 There is hardly any climber that will so successfully and 

 beautifully cover the surface of an outside brick chim- 

 ney or smooth stone wall when it is properly trained, 

 and some of its hybrids promise to be still more effective, 



