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correspondingly heavy. Consequently it does 

 best when it is encouraged to go on at the tips 

 and given some help to this end. The shower 

 of fragrance which it constantly pours forth 

 from an elevated position, too, makes this my 

 favorite way of using it — for it fills upstairs as 

 well as down, indoors as well as out, with its 

 sweetness. 



To share this lattice with the honeysuckle 

 plant a clematis or two — not so near it that 

 they intermingle, but near enough that there 

 may be bloom and sweetness over a longer 

 period. The Japanese variety that is so univer- 

 sally grown — Clematis paniculata — flings abroad 

 its foaming mass of white bloom in August, 

 after the honeysuckle has finished, save for here 

 and there a fugitive clump of blossoms. It also 

 is not only deficient in lower growth, but weak 

 as well; hence its ascending trellis must be very 

 strong and immovable that it may not whip 

 about and be injured at the ground. 



The vines which are planted to give shade to 

 a porch or any portion of a house fulfill their 

 purpose infinitely better when carried up to a 

 projecting support over which they may clam- 

 ber than when simply grown to form an upright 

 wall or screen of vegetation. This old way of 

 closing in with them as if they were curtains 



