2 3 o THE NEW GARDENING 



have seen Chrysanthemum walls which are really beauti- 

 ful, and considerably surprised the good souls who had 

 got into the habit of thinking in a groove in connection 

 with the uses of plants. 



The Winter Jasmine (nudiflorum) may be used against 

 a fence, and will be very cheerful in winter. It luxuriates 

 in a suburban garden, and needs hardly any attention. 

 A little thinning and training now and then sum up its 

 requirements. The Golden-netted Honeysuckle (aurea 

 reticulata) will thrive and look well trained on a fence, 

 and there is no reason why anyone who is prepared to 

 give a little time to training should not grow the lovely 

 Mountain Clematis (montana) , for it will bloom gloriously 

 on a low paling, and translation to a fence or wall should 

 mean no more than thinning, arranging and tying in 

 the shoots. 



Suburban gardeners who are strongly imbued with 

 the importance of decorating the dividing lines of their 

 gardens sometimes resort to Ivy-leaved Geraniums of 

 rambling habit, and with very happy results, for when 

 the plants are put into good soil near the walls, and 

 watered until well established, they speedily throw out 

 strong, freely bloomed shoots, which can be nailed into 

 the surface. No plant is gayer than this, none makes 

 itself more happy, or flowers more cheerfully, on a low 

 wall or fence. 



Trees and shrubs present a double problem to the 

 suburbanist : it is not only a question of the best kinds, 

 but of the room they take up. The gardener with very 

 small area cannot afford to give up much space to a few 

 bulky things, to the exclusion of a larger number of 

 smaller, better plants. 



At a period when much is written, and rightly, in 

 favour of trees, it seems unfortunate to have to deprecate 



