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lightful, while its flowers give a gayety and brightness to 

 the park, which forest trees, producing usually but incon- 

 spicuous blossoms, could not alone produce. 



We have to regret that the inclemency of our winters will 

 not permit us to cultivate the White European Jasmine, 

 (Jasminum officinale.) out of the garden, as even there it 

 requires a slight protection in winter. Below the latitude 

 of Philadelphia, however, it will probably succeed well. In 

 the southern states they have a most lovely plant, the Caro- 

 lina .Tasmine, ( Gelseminum,) which hangs its beautiful yel- 

 low flowers on the very tree tops, and the woods there in 

 spring are redolent with their perfume. 



The connoisseur in vines will not forgfet the curious Pe- 

 riploca, which grows very rapidly to the height of 40 or 50 

 feet, and bears numerous bunches of very curious brown or 

 purple flowers in summer ; or the numerous varieties of 

 climbing roses, so superb both in leaf and blossom : or the 

 Double-blossoming Brambles, both pink and white, which 

 often make shoots of 20 or 30 feet long in a season, and bear 

 pretty clusters of full double flowers in June. All these 

 fine climbers, and several others to be found in the cata- 

 logues, may, in the hands of a person of taste, be made to 

 contribute in a wonderful degree to the variety, elegance, 

 and beauty of a country residence ; and to neglect to intro- 

 duce them would be to refuse the aid of some of the most 

 beautiful accessories which are capable of being combined 

 with trees, as well as with buildings, gardens, and fences. 



Some persons object to the growth of climbing plants upon 

 trees, that, by compressing the stems and tightening them- 

 selves around the limbs of trees, they gradually check their 

 growth, and finally by preventing the expansion of the 

 trunk, put an end to the life of the tree. This, we have no 



