THE 



Canadian Horticulturist. 



Vol. XXI. Toronto, 18 9 8 



December. No. 12 



HARDY CLIMBERS. 



Give fools their gold and knaves their power : 

 Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall ; 



Who sows a field or trains a flower, 

 Or plants a tree is more than all. 



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HEN one considers the 

 charms of forest and gar- 

 den, and the profusion of 

 decorative trees, plants, 

 and"shrubs, of which Dame Nature 

 has been so lavish, we wonder at the 

 cold neglect with which three-fourths 

 of the world regard it all. Engaged 

 from early morning till late at night with 

 the severe cares of business, either in the 

 office, or on the farm, all is forgotten ex- 

 cept what contributes to food or cloth- 

 ing ; and the rich treasures of the garden 

 are almost despised. Let the savage be 

 satisfied with animal comforts, but let 

 us, who live in a more favored environ- 

 ment, live on a higher plane, and feed 

 our soul's higher instincts with those 

 beauties of nature and art which are ex- 

 terior, and which will broaden our ideals 



—Whittier. 



and enlarge our conceptions of the beau- 

 tiful in Nature and Art. 



We desire in this article to briefly 

 mention a few of the climbing vines, 

 which, though already familiar to many 

 of our readers, yet cannot be fully appre- 

 ciated, or we would more often see them 

 decorating our houses, both in town 

 and country. 



Aristolochia Sipho. 

 On page 123 of Volume XX we made 

 reference to the beautiful eflfect of climb- 

 ers and other ornamentals in the case of 

 Mr. John Hayden's home at Cobourg. 

 One of the climbers on the gable was 

 Aristolochia Sipho, or Dutchman's Pipe, 

 and we give as our frontispiece a near 

 view of this creeper, which is counted 

 among our most beautiful native climb- 

 ers. It is called sipho, or tube bearing 



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