A CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE. 



beauty," none are more generally attractive than the wild 

 climbing plants of our leafy hedgerows. By interlacing their 

 delicate boughs, covered with foliage and flowers, or with 

 berries bright and sparkling, or, as in the wild clematis, 

 crowned with the lightest, feathery seeds, they wind about 

 the trees and bushes in festoons and wreaths of the utmost 



FIG. bi. ''Our leafy hedgerows." 



elegance, and contribute in no slight degree to the aspect of 

 richness and beauty which the landscape exhibits at this time 

 of the year. As their stems are so slender and delicate that 

 they would be crushed by the burthen of their flowery clusters 

 and numerous leaves, or rent and uprooted by the wind, 



