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ponticum, are highly desirable for forming thickets and for varying the scene. 

 I remember, upwards of forty years ago, noticing magnificent bushes of the 

 latter, growing freely in the shade, in the woods at Kenwood, the seat of the 

 Earl of Mansfield. Among the deciduous shrubs are the red dogwood, silver 

 and gold striped elder, nuts, blackthorns, and the Dundee rambling roses. 

 Woodbine and Virginian bower, borne up by some neighbouring bush or 

 tree, are particularly pleasing. Vinca minor, of varieties, and Vinca major, 

 are valuable plants for covering bare ground under trees in pleasure grounds; 

 and in such situations they serve as a bordering for walks. Also the common 

 ling and other heaths, Gaultheria shallon, and crowberries, may be employed 

 for the same purpose. 



Climbing Plants. 



First, I may mention the following as very suitable for clinging to old 

 buildings, with little or no assistance, both with a view to produce effect, and 

 also for covering walls, in order to destroy their glaring appearance :— Irish 

 ivy, small-leaved silver-striped ivy, and gold-striped Irish giant ivy, palmate- 

 leaved and common small-leaved Virginian creeper ; Bignonia radicans, and 

 Bignonia radicans major. 



Next, those suitable for trellis work and walls, but requiring to be 

 trained, are, — Clematis azurea grandiflora, Clematis flamula, Clematis florida, 

 Clematis florida pleno, Clematis bicolor, Eccremocarpus scabra, Lycium 

 barbarum, Lycium ruthenicum, Catalpa syringifolia, Wistaria consequana, 

 Jasminum nudiflorum, Wallachiana, and the white jasmine, Passiflora ccerulea, 

 honeysuckles of sorts, Fellemberg, Amie vibert, Thorsbiana, and other 

 perpetual roses. 



Plants foe Beautifying Teees which are not of themselves 



Pleasing Objects. 

 The double Ayrshire and Thorsbiana roses, varieties of honeysuckles, 

 Virginian bower, sweet-scented clematis, cut-leaved ivy, small leaved and 

 silver ivy, are pleasing objects climbing round the stems and branches of old 

 crooked trees, not handsome of themselves. But let it be noticed, that ivy 

 pressing and grasping straight-stemmed trees of all ages, exhibiting puny 

 tops, and gasping for life, (as we often see it in woods), is neither natural 



