CLIMBERS AND THEIR ARTISTIC USE. 



129 



bushes here and there. Among these nothing is better than the 

 various forms of Clematis Viticella, and there is also a number of not 

 very showy plants which might be used in this way, such as Apios 

 and even the climbing Fern of N. America, and some Bomareas and 

 the wild Nasturtiums. Two lovely twining shrubs must never be 

 left out in any scheme of this kind, the Atragene or Alpine Clematis 

 of the mountains of Europe, hardy as the Oak and tender in colour 

 as the dove, and in all the warmer districts the winter-flowering 

 Clematis of the islands of the Mediterranean and the North African 

 coasts, where it garlands with the Smilax millions of acres of hyena- 

 and jackal-haunted scrub. 



A Trumpet Flower (Bignonia grandiflora). Engraved from a photograph by Miss Willmott. 



ROSES AS CLIMBERS. It would be difficult to overpraise the 

 value of the Rose in all arrangements of climbing plants. Many of 

 the more vigorous Wild Roses of the northern world are naturally 

 almost climbing plants, and some of them are seen 20 ft. high or so 

 among trees. In gardens many varieties might be mentioned which 

 in past years were a great source of beauty and gave a very showy 

 effect when well used, but, in our own time, and within the past 

 generation or two, since the raising of Gloire de Dijon, a noble series 

 of climbing Roses, wholly distinct from the old climbing kinds, has 

 been raised in France, the most precious flowers that have ever 

 adorned the Rose-garden. 



K 



