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aphis (which is the pest of the old sorts), and it blooms (as 

 soon as the plant gets strong) nearly the whole summer, 

 affording a perpetual feast of beauty and fragrance. The 

 other, is the Sweet-scented Clematis ((,'. jlammula), the 

 very type of delicacy and grace, whose flowers are broidered 

 like pale stars over the whole vine in midsummer, and 

 whose perfume is the most spiritual, impalpable, and yet 

 far-spreading of all vegetable odors. 



All the honeysuckles are beautiful in the garden, though 

 none of them, except the foregoing, and what are familiarly 

 called the ' l trumpet honeysuckles," are fit for the walls of 

 a cottage, because they harbor insects. Nothing, however, 

 can well be prettier than the Red and Yellow Trumpet 

 Honeysuckles, when planted together and allowed to inter- 

 weave their branches, contrasting the delicate straw-color 

 of the flower tunes of one, with the deep coral-red hue of 

 those of the other; and they bloom with a welcome prodi- 

 gality from April to December. 



Where you want to produce a bold and picturesque effect 

 with a vine, nothing will do it more rapidly and completely 

 than our native grapes. They are precisely adapted to the 

 porch of the farmhouse, or to cover any building, or part 

 of a building, where expression of strength rather than of 

 delicacy is sought after. Then you will find it easy to 

 smooth away all objections from the practical soul of the 

 farmer, by offering him a prospect of ten bushels of fine 

 Isabella or Catawba grapes a year, which you, in your 

 innermost heart, do not value half so much as five or ten 

 months of beautiful drapery! 



Next to the grape-vine, the boldest and most striking of 

 hardy vines is the Dutchman's pipe (Aristolochia sipho). It 

 is a grand twining climber, and will canopy over a large 

 arbor in a short time, and make a shade under it so dense 

 that not a ray of pure sunshine will ever find its way through. 

 Its gigantic circular leaves, of a rich green, form masses 

 such as delight a painter's eye, - - so broad and effective 

 are they; and as for its flowers, which are about an inch 

 and a half long, - - why, they are so like a veritable meer- 



