172 Landscape Gardening 



single year, being a not uncommon sight. Among all the 

 sorts yet known, the Queen of the Prairies (deep pink), and 

 Superba (nearly white), are the best.* 



\Ye wish we could give our fair readers a glance at a 

 Chinese Wistaria in our grounds, as it looked last April. 

 It covered the side of a small cottage completely. If they 

 will imagine a space of 10 by 20 feet, completely draped 

 with \Yistaria shoots, on which hung, thick as in a llower 

 pattern, at least 500 clusters of the most delicate blossoms, 

 of a tint between pearl and lilac, each bunch of bloom 

 shaped like that of a locust tree, but eight inches to a foot 

 long, and most gracefully pendant from branches just start- 

 ing into tender green foliage; if, we say, they could see all 

 this, as we saw it, and not utter exclamations of delight, then 

 they deserve to be classed with those women of the nine- 

 teenth century, who are thoroughly "fit for sea-captains." 



For a cottage climber, that will take care of itself better 

 than almost any other, and embower door and windows 

 with rich foliage and flowers, take the common Boursault 

 Rose.f Long purplish shoots, foliage always fresh and 

 abundant, and bright purplish blossoms in June, as thick 

 as stars in a midnight sky, - all belong to this plant. 

 Perhaps the richest and prettiest Boursault, is the one 

 called by the nurserymen Amadis or Elegans; the flower a 

 bright cherry-color, becoming crimson purple as it fades, 

 with a delicate stripe of white through an occasional petal. 



There are two very favorite climbers that belong prop- 

 erly to the middle states, as they are a little tender, and 

 need protection to the north or east. One of them is the 

 Japan Honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica); the species with 

 very dark, half evergreen leaves, and a profusion of lovely 

 delicate white and fawn-colored blossoms. It is the queen 

 of all honeysuckles for cottage walls, or veranda pillars; its 

 foliage is always so rich; it is entirely free from the white 



These once most popular roses have now been almost supplanted 

 by Crimson Rambler, Dorothy Perkins, Hiawatha and their like. 

 F. A. \Y. 



t These varieties arc now little grown. -- F. A. W. 



