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throw some litter over them before the ground fireezes. Instead 

 of tr ainin g the large-flowering species upon a trellis, they may be 

 allowed to spread over the ground, merely confining them to the 

 bed it is designed they should cover, and in this method they 

 make most beautiful bedding plants. The flowers are often three 

 to four inches in diameter, usually white, or purple, or blue, of 

 Tarious shades and tints, exceedingly brilliant and showy. 



American Wldte. — A native variety, sometimes found on 

 the banks of our streams, supporting itself by tw inin g its petioles 

 or leaf-stalks, around the branches of shrubs or low trees. It 

 blossoms in August. The flowers are white, succeeded by seed 

 vessels having long feathery appendages which are very handsome. 

 It will grow some twenty or more feet in a season, but the greater 

 part dies back in winter, leaving a foot or two near the ground 

 from which the new growth starts out the next season. 



Sweet-scented European. — The flowers are small, white, and 

 very sweet-scented. There is a light purple variety that is sweet- 

 scented, called Odorata. They both flower in August and 

 September. 



Viticella. — Flowers reddish purple, produced in great abun- 

 dance from June to September. There is a double-flowered 

 Viticella, which is much admired; another called V. Venosa, 

 in which the purple petals are veined with crimson ; and yet 

 another called Y. Purpurea, having a red band in the centre of 

 each petal. 



Lanuginosa. — Has very large pale blue flowers, and there is a 

 sub-variety, Candida, which has large, handsome white flowers, 

 that is thought to be the best white. 



Honeysuckles. — Lonicera. — ^These favorite climbers are too 

 well known to require description. Seed sown in the autumn, 

 after they are ripe, will come up the next season, but if allowed 

 to become dry they seldom grow until the second year. 



Scarlet Trum'pet. — Quite hardy, yielding trumpet-shaped 

 flowers, of a rich scarlet on the outside and orange within, not 

 perfumed. 



