42 HEDGES, WINDBREAKS, SHELTERS, ETC. 



yield ground to a crowding neighbor, nor does it 

 die out in spots. 



Those who desire to form an ornamental trellis 

 will find nothing to surpass the sweet honeysuckle 

 (Lonicera Canadensis) and other varieties of con- 

 stant blooming honeysuckles. They should be 

 grown to a stout wire trellis, and kept well fed. A 

 pretty effect is made by growing alternately the 

 sweet and the trumpet honeysuckles. The latter 

 variety, however, is much the more rapid and robust 

 in growth, and likes to climb as high as twenty-five 

 feet. It needs close cutting, while both varieties 

 require considerable compulsion to correct a wild 

 straggling style of growth. The fragrance of the 

 honeysuckle, if it does not surpass all other vines, is 

 at least unexcelled. It is possible on such trellises 

 to combine with the honeysuckle the large-flowering 

 clematis. The tall climbing varieties are more suit- 

 able for balconies or rockeries. 



The Southern states have the advantage of 

 being able to use for hedges those roses which are too 

 tender to grow perfectly in the Northern states. They 

 can also make grand hedges of the Chinese privet, 

 and of Cape Jasmine, and the Japan Euonymus. 

 But imagine a hedge or a windbreak of the broad- 

 leaved evergreens ! At the North, however, we may 

 grow many varieties of roses with enough effect to 

 be highly gratifying. I have seen hedges of General 

 Jacqueminot, Caroline de Sansal, John Hopper, and 

 other hybrid-perpetuals which were certainly mar- 

 vels of beauty during the blossoming season. But, 

 alas, our tea roses are too tender to become suffi- 

 ciently large plants for effective hedges. I shall 



