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garniture of Wisteria bloom, I have promised a similar 

 cloak to a gnarled bird cherry that stands midway in 

 the fence rockery, and yet another to an attenuated 

 poplar, so stripped of branches as to be little more 

 than a pole and still keeping a certain dignity. 



The honeysuckles I shall keep for panelling the 

 piazza, they are such clean vines and easily controlled ; 

 while on the two- story portion under the guest-room 

 windows some Virginia creepers can be added to make 

 a curtain to the side porch. 



As for other vines, we have many resources. Fes- 

 tooned across the front stoop at Opal Farm is an old 

 and gigantic vine of the scarlet- and- orange trumpet 

 creeper, that has overrun the shed, climbed the side 

 of the house, and followed round the rough edges of 

 the eaves, while all through the grass of the front yard 

 are seedling plants of the vine that, in spring, are 

 blended with tufts of the white star of Bethlehem 

 and yellow daffies. 



In the river woods, brush and swamp lots, near by, 

 we have found and marked for our own the mountain 

 fringe with its feathery foliage and white flowers 

 shaded with purple pink, that suggest both the bleed- 

 ing heart of gardens and the woodland Dutchman's 

 breeches. It grows in great strings fourteen or fifteen 



