288 TREES AND SHRUBS 



lend themselves willingly to this class of pictorial 

 treatment. 



One of the most important of our climbing shrubs, 

 the Wistaria, makes grand growth in all the south of 

 England. This also can be used to excellent effect 

 trained into some rather thinly-furnished tree such 

 as an old Acacia. Its grey snake-like stems and 

 masses of bloom high up in the supporting tree 

 are shown to excellent effect. This is also a fine 

 plant for a pergola. A few plants growing free and 

 rambling full length would, after the first few years, 

 when they are getting old, cover a pergola from end 

 to end. The piers or posts could also be covered 

 with the same, for though the nature of the plant is 

 to ramble, yet if kept to one stem and closely pruned 

 it readily adapts itself to pillar form, and bears a 

 wonderful quantity of bloom. 



Among the Grape Vines there is a great variety of 

 ways of use other than the stiff wall training they 

 generally receive. If they are wanted for fruit they 

 must be pruned, but most outdoor Vines are grown 

 for the beauty of their foliage. Here is another first- 

 class pergola plant, making dense leafy shade, and 

 growing in a way that is delightfully pictorial. 

 Nothing looks better rambling over old buildings. 

 Now that so many once prosperous farms are farms 

 no longer, and that their dwelling-houses are being 

 converted to the use of another class of occupier, 

 the rough out-buildings, turned into stabling, and 

 adapted for garden sheds, often abut upon the new- 

 made pleasure-garden. This is the place where the 



