Trees, Shrubs and Vines 



and shrubs. Without interference with the foregoing 

 lists, they can be interspersed according to the con- 

 ditions of the case. It is by these that the final touch of 

 ornamentation in natural scenery is afforded. Graceful, 

 delicate, artless, and wayward, they seem to symbolize 

 childhood better than all else that grows. A beautiful 

 vine is like a gem of lyric poetry, the consummate ex- 

 pression of nature's tenderness. 



The Park contains forty varieties of vines. Besides 

 the ubiquitous wistaria, ampelopsis, and ivy, one will 

 find here and there a hydrangea-leaved vine clinging 

 to the rocks, which we must, perforce, introduce to the 

 reader under the fearful name of Schizophragma hy- 

 drangeoides, as it comes from abroad and has no popular 

 title. Its strong, glossy leaves finely drape its rocky 

 support, and nothing could be better for covering an ex- 

 tensive wall. It climbs by aerial rootlets like the ivy. 



A delicate little herbaceous vine with a curiously 

 shaped compound leaf and violet flowers having three 

 concave petals, is the Akebia quinata, from Japan ; and 

 from China comes the great-flowered trumpet-flower 

 (Tecoma grandifivra) , with orange -red bell -shaped 

 flowers three inches across, and showy pinnate leaves. 

 Hardly inferior is our native species (T. radicans), which 

 is cultivated abroad. 



Here, too, are the best of the clematis species, hailing 

 from Japan and Europe -flammula, lanuginosa, panicu- 

 lata, Jackmanni, and Henryi superb examples of hor- 

 ticultural art, showing most remarkable differences in 

 size, tint, and texture of flowers. The paniculata is so 

 hardy, luxuriant, and fragrant that it leaves nothing to 



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