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or a large boulder covered over with free growing climbers 

 are handsome objects in gardens. Honeysuckles or other 

 climbers may be made to form handsome altars of green 

 and flowers in the lawn, if five or six stakes are put about 

 the plants, say four feet high, surrounding them with 

 about three hoops at equal distances and allowing the 

 vine to cover them. If the Glold-Xetted Honeysuckle 

 be used it will give a splendid golden effect. Other 

 forms of trellis may also be used similarly for adorning 

 law^ns. 



Mantles and festoons of greenery over walls, railings, 

 bridges, arbors, and the buildings generally, are so pleas- 



Fig. 46. — POSTS WITH GARLANDS BETWEEN. 



ing to the eye that the use of climbers should be very 

 common. Plants of trailing habit, such as Periwinkle, 

 Ivy and prostrate Junipers, are useful as edo^ngs to plats 

 of grass or shrubbery groups, or tlie former for covering 

 terrace banks, shady places against buildings, or under 

 trees where nothing else will grow. Single lines of 

 Periwinkle or Ivy, a foot or more wide between walks 

 and the lawn, are effective, as there is a pleasing contrast 

 between the dark-gre3n foliage of the former, and the 

 lighter green of the grass. Witli a little attention to 

 trimming, either of these plants may be made to form a 

 shapely rounded line. The Gold-netted Honeysuckle 

 may also be thus used, and in that case the color is much 

 lighter than that of the grass. 



