SOME RESULTS. 



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iiei"hl)oiiili(»(t(l ; now llio ordinnrv kind and the various other 

 forms of tliis fino wild fiower adorn tlie woods. In tliis wny 

 also the Lily of the Yallcv has heen introduced and is spread- 

 ino- rapidlv. ^lanv clinddnii- Eoses ami various other climbers 

 have been ])lanted at the bases of trees and stumps, but, 

 though thri\ing, the plantation is as yet too young to show 

 1 lie good effect that these will eventually produce. There is 



Large-flowered Clematis. 



no finer picture at present to be seen in gardens than a free- 

 growing flowering creeper, enjoying its own wild way over an 

 old tree or stump, and sending down a rain of flower -laden 

 shoots. A Clematis montana here, originally trained on a 

 wall, sent up some of its shoots through a tree close at hand, 

 where, fortunately, they have been allowed to remain, and 

 now the long shoots hang from the tree full of flowers. The 

 large plumes of the noljler hardy Ferns are seen here and 



