LAYING OUT A GARDEN 



gently lift the heavy branches while painting 

 under them, and not to paint the light ten- 

 drils. When the master -painter has remon- 

 strated, that it was not a "good job" and took 

 three times as long as if the vines were laid 

 down, my reply has been, that "three times" 

 was nothing in comparison with the years it 

 had taken to grow them, and that stunting or 

 killing the vines could never be a "good job.'" 



Among the creepers are the Crimson Ram- 

 bler Rose and the Honeysuckle. In three 

 years the Roses have growTi above the sec- 

 ond-story windows. 



Clematis paniculata, with its delicate foliage 

 and mass of starry bloom in early autumn, 

 is particularly good to plant by veranda posts 

 in connection with other vines. It grows 

 luxuriantly and is absolutely hardy. The 

 large white - flowered Henryi and purple - 

 flowered Jackmani Clematis, though of slow 

 growth, should always have a place, either 

 about a veranda, a summer-house or a trellis, 

 for the sake of their beautiful flowers. 



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