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terfere with the Roses if kept in hand, for they may 

 be trained over it and on it and through it, and 

 it will make a good background for them. Its 

 leaves, which are almost evergreen and disappear 

 for not more than three months in the year, will 

 furnish the arbour luxuriantly throughout the sea- 

 son so that it will present an attractive appearance. 

 Roses will come and blossom and depart but the 

 Honeysuckles will go on forever, cheerful, sweet- 

 scented, an eminently satisfactory possession. 



On a small arbour do not use more than one 

 Crimson Rambler, the other Roses should have 

 places; Baltimore Belle and the Wichurianas. 



The Clematis Paniculata should be used on a post 

 or pillar. It dies down to the ground each year 

 although sometimes a shoot will remain green 

 through the Winter. Once started it grows rap- 

 idly and provides a good green; the climax of the 

 vine is in late August, a time when climaxes are 

 rare in the garden, and the afterbloom is attractive 

 in its light, feathery sprays that are agitated by 

 the slightest air and tremble like gossamers. An- 

 other Clematis that is good to train on the fence is 

 Jackmanni; with a large purple blossom. It is a 



