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will be not to let them be smothered by the climbing 

 plants. One of the many beautiful Ivies, not the 

 common Irish nor any other of the larger leaved 

 ones, but such a lovely thing as the dainty Caenwood 

 variety, is just the thing for the piers, and even this 

 must be watched and perhaps thinned and suitably 

 restrained every year or two. Next to it and partly 

 growing among it, and climbing up one pier, a 

 Clematis Flammula will do well ; its delicate clouds 

 of bloom lovely in September. Then would come 

 some darker bushes, Choisya^ Bay, or Laurustinus, 

 and next beyond them something totally different ; 

 some pale pink Tree Paeonies grouped with Laven- 

 der, and on the wall with this group, which would 

 be a longish one, the beautiful May-flowering Clema- 

 tis montana, not stiffly trained, but only fastened to 

 the wall here and there, when its blooming masses 

 will cling together and hang in grand garlands wide- 

 swung from point to point; some hanging low so 

 that they are in close association with the Paeonies, 

 when one of the year's best flower-pictures will be 

 to be seen. 



Then we will have some garden Roses. The white 

 Rose {R. alba), single and double, and Maiden's 

 Blush — they are not climbing Roses, but such as 

 will rise to this wall's height; at their foot will be 

 more Lavender, and among it bushes of Cabbage 

 Rose and of Damask and the striped Cottage Maid, 

 perhaps more commonly known as York and Lan- 

 caster, a name which, however, belongs of right to 

 a different Rose of rather the same class. Then we 



