6 PRESENT-DAY GARDENING 



crematorium at Golders Green, it was decided to have a 

 bold pergola. The manager, with praiseworthy economy 

 in starting a new affair, insisted on using old disfigured 

 trees that had been cut down about the place, and the 

 result was that one wild February day the whole thing was 

 blown over. The pillars ought to have been braced both 

 ways by stout squared timbers of Chestnut, Oak, or Larch. 



The Ivy takes care of itself in the woods and copses, 

 and though some people are careful to cut it off trees, it 

 is a mistake to do so. One may do it when it overpowers 

 a favourite or rare tree, but generally in woodland work it 

 is best to let the Ivy alone for the sake of its beauty and 

 to shelter wrens and other small birds. I rather like 

 taking one of the fine forms of Ivy and putting it at the 

 base of a tree, with a stone over it, leaving it to climb up. 



To show how one may go to work, I may say that we 

 are now planting groups of Hollies, the noblest of all ever- 

 green shrubs, and when we plant a Holly we put a delicate 

 climber against it, a Clematis, or the Flame Nasturtium, 

 as the case may be. Some climbers are so fragile that 

 they do not injure any shrub ; if it does, it can be cut away. 

 Wild roses may also be beautifully treated in a natural 

 way, such as our own Dog rose or the Japanese ramblers 

 people are so fond of. One can only see their highest 

 beauty when they are running over or falling about a tree. 

 Some climbers, too, that become weeds in rich garden soil, 

 may be used with good effect to clothe fences. We have 

 used the Hungarian Bindweed in that way ; it is a hand- 

 some plant, but whilst in the garden it ruins everything 

 else, on an orchard fence it is never in the way. 



W. R. 



