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winter Jasmine can get its trails of yellow flowers amongst this Ivy, 

 the effect is very charming. Amurensis, known also as macrodonta, is 

 a quick-growing kind with large, thick V-shaped leaves, deep green in 

 spring, passing to bronzy brown in winter. Emerald Green is a splendid 

 variety for edging walks, as it is of close, compact habit, with rich 

 glossy green leaves. The Bird's-foot Ivy (H. pedata) is so named on 

 account of its leaves resembling the feet of a bird. They are light 

 green, with conspicuous silvery veins ; taurica, himalaica, and angularis 

 are good sorts too. 



Ivies, Tree. These make excellent plants in pots for decorating 

 rooms, &c., and for winter bedding they are splendidly adapted. H. 

 arborea is the well-known Tree Ivy, and needs nothing more than pass- 

 ing reference. The golden-leaved variety aurea is constant in colour 

 and of free growth. The silver-leaved form and the yellow-berried 

 variety well deserve notice. We enjoy a group of the Tree Ivy with 

 China Roses planted amongst it. 



Jasmines. Three species of Jasmine prove good climbing plants in 

 England. The sweet-scented Jasmine (Jasminum officindle) that per- 

 fumes the air with its white flowers around cottage porches, its variety 

 qffine, the yellow-flowered J. revolutum, an evergreen, which, being a 

 native of India, was formerly treated as a hothouse plant, but has proved 

 hardy, and the winter-flowering /. nudiflorum, which bears sweetly- 

 scented yellow flowers along its leafless shoots in winter. Shoots 

 with buds about to open, placed in water in the house, expand delight- 

 fully. It will grow anywhere, even in a London garden ; it is one of the 

 brightest and most welcome of climbing plants, and should have a back- 

 ground of ivy or evergreens. Jasmines, besides being placed against 

 walls, may be allowed to ramble over old tree stumps, arbours, pergolas, 

 or planted in groups, say of threes, against rough, stout stakes put into 

 the ground triangular fashion, several feet from each other, and the tops 

 secured with twine. The effect of this at flowering time is very pretty. 

 J. fruiticans, from Southern Europe, is a neat evergreen species, and 

 quite happy on a shady lawn. Its yellow flowers are succeeded by 

 round black berries. With regard to the pruning or thinning out of the 

 growths of Jasmines they must not all be pruned at the same time. 

 Shorten the growths of the winter-flowering Jasmine and remove 

 weakly ones. 



Lathyms latifollUS (The Everlasting Pea), and its white variety, form 

 fine subjects for covering a fence eight feet or so in height. They may be 

 increased by division of the root and by seed, but root division is best. 

 It is a pity that these strong growing perennials are not more grown. The 

 white variety Alba is very useful for cutting, and should be grown in 

 the reserve garden for this purpose. There is a variety of the Everlast- 

 ing Pea named splendens, which is very rich in colour. The L. rotundi- 

 foliits, the Persian perennial Pea, has rose flowers, and is a good garden 

 plant. Valuable, too, is L. Sibthorpi, which has reddish-purple flowers ; 

 it flowers quite early, sometimes in early May. The plant is not 

 so strong in growth as L. latifolius and its forms, but in good soil 

 will reach a height of three feet. L. grandifolius has large, showy, 



