Wistaria he brought over in 1 8 1 6, may still be spreading its huge length 

 and over the old Wistar house, as it was twelve years ago. I came 

 Clematis u P n a delightful colour effect this spring in a very fine old 

 Montana Hampshire garden. Over a gateway in an old wall a mass of 

 Wistaria supported on heavy wooden bars was in full bloom ; 

 through it a mass of pink China Rose had forced its way 

 upwards ; the whole being backed by a Quince tree in flower, 

 while the water of a pond gleamed through the opening 

 beneath. A more charming combination is hard to imagine. 

 Another admirable background for Wistaria may be seen 

 in a Yew hedge. But Yew is a most effective setting to many 

 creepers. For instance the Flame Flower, Tropteolum speciosum, 

 never looks better than when it scrambles over a yew hedge ; 

 and it seems to delight in such a support for those dainty leaves 

 that cling with so firm a twist of their slender stalks to every 

 available twig. The invaluable Clematis montana too, beauti- 

 ful as it is in all positions, is singularly attractive when allowed 

 to run wild up a yew tree, and hang its pendant ropes of snowy 

 stars from every gloomy branch. 



As on the pergola, so among creepers for other positions, 

 whether on house or wall or fence, a well-ordered succession 

 which even in winter shall give green foliage if they cannot 

 bear flowers, is a point to be considered. And of evergreen 

 climbers and wall i plants there are happily many available, 

 besides new Wichuriana Roses, and our old friends the ever- 

 green Honeysuckles. One has seen the grey stone of a house 

 far up in the north of Scotland clothed to the upper windows 

 with the glossy foliage of Esca/ Ionia macrantha. Euonymus, 

 green, gold, or silver, grows admirably against a wall. The 

 handsome Pyracantha and some of the Cotoneasters, cover the 

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