HARDY CLIMBING PLANTS FOR ORNAMENT AND USE 



J. McP. ROSS, TORONTO, ONT. 



HARDY climbing plants may be pro- 

 perly Qivided into two classes, the 

 hara wooded or shrubby climbers, and the 

 hardy herbaceous climbers. The whole 

 family of climbing plants are a delightful 

 class to admire, and seemingly possess, 

 apart from other plants, a sort of thinking 

 sensitiveness. As you watch their tendrils 

 swaying in the breeze seeking for some- 

 thing to cling to, and after observing the 

 proper thing which they have seized to twine 

 about, it would almost seem as if the plant 

 were endowed with positive conscience. I 

 am almost tempted to put the rose first in 

 the list of hardy climbing plants, but must 

 award the position to the grape. 



In the grape vine Nature produces one of 

 the most useful plants in creation, and had 



she but adorned it with flowers of the cle- 

 matis type we would have had, I think, 

 everything desired in a climbing plant. In 

 it we have graceful habit, beautiful foliage 

 and luxurious fruit, and when asked by any 

 one what climbing plant to get, I advise 

 first if it is a suitable place, to put in a 

 grape vine. For southern exposure noth- 

 ing could be more useful, all that is neces- 

 sary being a little more trouble in tying up. 

 I have frequently seen in American cities, ar- 

 bors and porches leading up to the front 

 door of the house covered with grape vines, 

 forming pictures of beauty not easily for- 

 gotten. For covering old outbuildings and 

 fences it is unexcelled, and trained upon 

 trellises makes most valuable screens. Next 

 to the grape comes the rose, which it is al- 



One of the Many Attractive Garden Effects in Ingersoll. 



The porch of the home-like residence of Mr A. B. Ord, Manager of the Traders Bank, Ingersoll, is here shown. It is covered 

 with clematis, which was photographed when literally a mass of bloom. A number of the enthusiastic horticulturists in Ingersoll are 

 planning the organiyation of a Horticultural society and none are taking greater interest in the movement than Mr. Ord. 



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