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the flexible shoots can be tied. The Virginia creeper and 

 Bignonia take care of themselves, clinging, by the aid of little 

 rootlets, to boards or trees, or walls, wherever they are planted. 

 The ivy, if against a wall of stone or brick, also supports 

 itself; but if against a trellis or woodvvrork, it will need train- 

 ing up in the same way as a honeysuckle. Unfortunately, 

 the ivy is rather tender as far north as 42°, though it thrives 

 very well if protected from the winter sun. In New York 

 and southward, it grows as well as in its native climate. 



We had intended to offer some remarks on the disposition of 

 climbing plants, and their decorative character connected with 

 dwellings ; but we find we have little space left. As a general 

 thing, in residences of the higher class, surrounded with broad 

 gravel walks and fine lawns, climbers should be sparingly 

 introduced ; very close to the house, near the casement, or 

 around the porch and piazza, they are too often mere traps to 

 catch leaves and dirt, and, unless attended to with the greatest 

 care, they become a confused mass of bare stems and mere 

 foliage. Their proper place and where they become express- 

 ive objects, is in running in careless luxuriance over some 

 rural cottage, — wreathing its bay windows ; — festooning its 

 porch or mantling its walls ; — creeping over some jutting 

 rock ; — winding around some rustic column or trunk of tree ; — 

 ornamenting some fancy trellis ; — climbing over the arbor ; — 

 or shadowing the garden seat. In either or all of these sit- 

 uations, they are never out of place, but add to the pic- 

 turesque character of every rural scene. . 



THE FLIGHT OF THE WOODN YM PHS. 



BY WILSON FLAGG. 



On the southern slope of a hill, nearly in the entrance of a 

 valley, stood a rustic cottage inhabited by a plain industrious 

 farmer and his family. The farm which was connected with 

 the cottage was a beautiful intermixture of wood, tillage and 

 pasture ; and, embosomed in these natural groves, the glisten- 



