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ers, shrubs and flowers are used to make a pretty garden 

 picture, whether as seen from without or within. For 

 this purpose the climbers may be "Wistaria, Celastrus, 

 Virginia Creeper, or other free growers with Weigela, 

 Japan Quince, Reeves's Spiraea, or other shrubs of shapely 

 growth and good foliage ; and Geraniums, Coleus, and 

 similar bright plants between the shrubs. 



The climbers may be used to good advantage in con- 

 nection with trees in several ways. Sometimes very 

 picturesque combinations are met in nature, which are 

 worthy of imitation in the garden. Trees fifteen to 



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Fig. 42.— SHRUBS, FLOWERS, AND 

 CLIMBERS ABOUT A BAY WINDOW. 



Fig. 43.— VERANDA COVERED WITH 

 CELASTRUS. 



twenty feet high may be so covered and weighed down 

 with Virginia Creeper or the Wild Grape, as to form per- 

 fect arbors of green, the branches falling in garlands to 

 the ground. Nothing can be more delightful than such 

 natural arbors. If a tree is of considerable size when 

 such a climber is planted at the root, little harm to it 

 can arise from the combination. 



A strong plant of the Dutchman's Pipe, or the Virginia 

 Creeper running up one tree trunk about ten feet high, 

 and then carried in a festoon across to another tree, 

 veranda, or some other object near by, makes a novel and 



