Shrubs and Vines 



be desired in that type of a vine, while the large purple 

 Jackmanni and the immense creamy-white Hefiryi are 

 among the choicest of their kind. 



The best of the climbing honeysuckles are here, of 

 course with foreign labels, and of roses, our own prairie 

 rose, with the crimson rambler, yellow rambler, Balti- 

 more Belle, and others from abroad. The omnipresent 

 poison-ivy covers many an oak and maple, adds not a 

 little to the color-effect of autumn, and seems to injure 

 no one. The botanist Gray as a rule is very dispassion- 

 ate in his discussion of plants, but this one provokes 

 him to unusual ire, and he calls it ''a vile pest"! I 

 feel more lenient, and have often stopped to admire its 

 abundant clusters of whitish flowers, its white berries, 

 and the October crimson by which it shows its kinship 

 to the sumachs. 



One will find here the bitter-sweet {Celastrus scatidens), 

 with its orange seeds, and the very different bitter-sweet 

 (^Solamtm didcamard), with its handsome scarlet berries ; 

 the Lycium, to all intents a vine, hanging profusely 

 along many a wall, purple-flowered and scarlet-berried ; 

 also the huge-leaved pipe-vine {Aristolochia sipho), the 

 pink-purple everlasting pea {Lathy rus latifolia), peri- 

 winkle, periploca, the curious trailing juniper, as much 

 vine as shrub, and many more. The entire catalogue is 

 almost identical with the lists advertised by the fore- 

 most florists, and the numerous walls and rockeries, by 

 this elegant ornamentation, become a conspicuous feat- 

 ure of the Park's attraction, especially along the walled 

 subways, and most of all in their endless tints of glorious 

 autumnal coloring. 



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