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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



SECTION VI. 



VINES AND CLIMBING PLANTS. 



Value of this kind of vegetation. Fine natural effects. The European Ivy. The Virginia 

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

 Vine, and the Clematis. The Wistarias. The Honeysuckles and Woodbines. The Jas- 

 mine and the Periploca. Eemarks on the proper mode of introducing vines. Beautiful 

 effects of climbing plants in connection with buildings. 



Q,uite over-canopied with lush woodbine, 

 With sweet musk roses, and with eglantine. 



Shaespeare. 



I N E S and climbing plants are ob- 

 p jects full of interest for the Landscape 

 Gardener, for theyseem endowed with 

 the characteristics of the elegant, 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 

 pleasure-ground. 



Climbing plants may be classed among the adventitious 

 beauties of trees. Who has not often witnessed with delight 



