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tropical butterfly, to those with small flowers borne in showers 

 like drops from a fountain jet, and often sweet as Hawthorn 

 blossoms. 



This climbinti' 

 be trained and 



vegetation may 

 tortured into forms 



never 

 be seen 



in Q-ardens, but 

 will its beauty 

 until we entrust 

 it to the garland- 

 ino- of shrub, and 

 copse, or hedge- 

 row, fringes of 

 dwarf plantation, 

 or groups of 

 shrubs and trees. 

 All to be done is to 

 put in a few tufts of 

 any desired kind, and leave tliein 

 alone, adapting the kind to the 

 position. The large, flesh-coloured 

 Bindweed, for example, would be best in 

 rough places, out of the pale of the pleasure- 

 ground or garden, so that its roots would 

 not spread where they could do harm, 

 wliile a dehcate Clematis might be placed 

 beneath the choicest specimen Conifer, and 

 allowed to paint its rich gi-een witli fair 

 flowers. In nature we frequently see a Honeysuckle clamber- 

 ing up through an old Hawthorn tree, and then struggling 

 with it as to which should produce the greatest profusion 



The large white Bindweed, 

 type of nobler climbing 

 plants, with annual stems. 

 For copses, hedgerows, 

 and shrubberies. 



