VINES AND CLIMBING PLANTS. 275 



SECTION VI. 



VINES AND CLIMBING PLANTS. 



Value of this kind of Vegetation. Fine natural effects. The European Ivy. Tin 

 Virginia Creeper. The Wild Grape Vine. The Bittersweet. The Trumpet Creeper. 

 The Pipe Vine, and the Clematis. The Wistarias. The Honeysuckles and Wood- 

 bines. The Jasmine and the Periploca. Remarks on the proper mode of introducing 

 vines. Beautiful effects of climbing plants in connexion with buildings. 



Quite over-canopied with lush woodbine, 

 With sweet musk roses, and with eglantine. 



SHAKSPEARE. 



I N E S and climbing plants are 

 objects full of interest for the Land- 

 scape Gardener, for they seem 

 endowed with the characteristics 

 of the graceful, the beautiful, and 

 the picturesque, in their luxuriant 

 and ever-varying forms. When judiciously introduced, 

 therefore, nothing can so easily give a spirited or graceful 

 air to a fine or even an ordinary scene, as the various 

 plants which compose this group of the vegetable kingdom. 

 We refer particularly now to those which have woody 

 and perennial stems, as all annual or herbaceous stemmed 

 plants are too short-lived to afford any lasting or 

 permanent addition to the beauty of the lawn or plea- 

 sure-ground. 



