A WALL OF FLOWERS. 



As a background to a long border of herbaceous 

 flowers, some three yards in width and eighty in 

 length, I have planted, against strong, rough hurdles, 

 a variety of climbers, such as Ayrshire, Boursault, 

 Hybrid China, Hybrid Bourbon, Sempervirens, Tea- 

 scented, and a few of the more robust Hybrid 

 Perpetual, Eoses, Clematis, Ivies, Honeysuckles, 

 Ceanothus, Indigofera, Hollyhocks, &c ; sowing in 

 the spring, on spaces not yet filled up, Canariensis, 

 Convolvulus, Tropoeolum, and Sweet Peas. The effect 

 has been already that is, in the second year most 

 pleasing, and I contemplate in the following summer 

 a very charming display. The fence is not quite six 

 feet in height, as I had sympathy with the vegetables 

 behind it. I should say that strong posts with wires 

 running through would be available for the same 

 result. The hollyhocks have a stately and attractive 

 beauty at intervals along the line, but they are 

 perishable, and it is well to have a reserve, inexpen- 

 sive when grown from seed. 



