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as wheu I stood in frout of it. I cannot well (]escril)e it ; bnt if you 

 have a ledge try this combination, and I am sure it will please you, 

 A few pine boughs were tied over all the ivies in winter, affording 

 all the protection that they required. This was done about Thanks- 

 giving time, and the boughs were removed about the first of April. 

 In this cemeter}" many fine bowlders are used as memorial stones, 

 in place of monuments, having bronze tablets set in for the 

 inscriptions ; these stones are covered with Arapelopsis. It ma^- 

 strike you as odd, but the effect is very pleasing. 



"We have rambled somewhat from our subject ; let us go back 

 again to the wall that I first alluded to. You will remember that 

 it was covered mainly with Virginia Creepers ; at a portion of it. 

 Clematis Jachmanni and C. Viticella was planted and allowed 

 to ramble with the creeper just as they pleased. Now let me ask 

 you to look at these bright flowers peeping out here and there, 

 sometimes singly' and then again in larger clusters among the 

 foliage of the Ampelopsis — in the latter part of July and August 

 before the changing of the foliage of the Ampelopsis — and you 

 will see a picture of color not equalled by any artistic bedding com- 

 bination that you can find. 



But the lower part of this wall was bare in many places, for the 

 vitality of the vines was at the top, nearest the sun. What was 

 to be done with it ; how should the bare places be made green ; or 

 how was it possible to cover them ? 



Looking to Japan again, I found Lonicera brachypoda varie- 

 (jata; widely known and sought on account of its beautiful varie- 

 gated foliage. Thus very soon the difficult}' was met, and the 

 lower part was filled up ; indeed we find the Lonicera twining on 

 the stems of the Ampelopsis ; and in about three years it was eight 

 and ten feet high. 



Another spot occurred not filled up, and here I found a place 

 for Akebia quinata, another very useful climber introduced from 

 China; this being of rapid growth soon found its way to the top 

 of the wall. The foliage is delicate and prett}- ; the flowers, which 

 are produced in clusters, are of a bluish violet color and sweet 

 scented, thus attracting the notice of the passers-by ; so I had 

 found another pretty vine to mingfe with the Ampelopsis. 



Once more 1 looked about, needing yet another vine. This I 

 found in Aridolochia Si2)Jio, perhaps better known as the Dutch- 

 man's pipe. Some may say, *• VVliat did you want with that; it 



