USE OF HARDY CLIMBING SHRUBS 289 



Vines may be so well planted. If the main stem 

 only is trained or guided it is well to leave the 

 long branches to shift for themselves, for they will 

 ramble and dispose themselves in so pictorial a way 

 that the whole garden is bettered by their rioting 

 grandeur of leaf mass. 



Aristolochia Sipho, with its twining stems and hand- 

 some leaves, will, like the Vine and the Virginian 

 Creeper, answer to all these uses of jungle-like 

 growth among trees and shrubs and free climbing 

 in hedge, over pergola or rough building. 



The employment of the climbing and rambling 

 Roses is also now understood for all such uses, and 

 the illustration shows the value of the Dutch Honey- 

 suckle for this purpose. 



A rough hedge containing perhaps only a few 

 Thorns and Hollies and stub Oaks, and a filling of 

 Wild Brambles, may be made glorious with the 

 free hardy climbers just guided into the bushes 

 and then left to ramble as they will. 



In the growth of the rarer and most distinct and 

 beautiful of climbing shrubs one must in the main 

 be guided by the natural surroundings of soil and 

 shelter or by climatic conditions. In the cold mid- 

 land and northern districts of England we have 

 seen common Laurels and many Roses killed to the 

 ground during severe winters. 



In Hampshire, Devon, and Cornwall, and in many 

 other isolated and sheltered nooks near the sea in 

 England south of the Thames, many so-called cool 

 greenhouse plants often grow and thrive luxuriantly 



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