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be planted freely, and cut into shape if it becomes 

 straggling. Viburnum plicatum, of which the original 

 tree is in these Nurseries, and Viburnum macrocephalum 

 are also of great beauty. 



Weigela rosea. Height, 4 feet. One of the hand- 

 somest of flowering shrubs, the flowers covering the 

 branches with their rosy-coloured blossoms in May. 

 There are many varieties of this plant, all worthy of 

 general cultivation ; amabilis, Stelzneri, and Van Houttei 

 are perhaps the best. 



No. VII. 



[From "The Gardeners 1 Chronicle? September 7th 1867, p. 926.] 



CLIMBING PLANTS. 



WHAT garden is so fortunately circumstanced as to 

 have green hedges on all sides for boundaries, and within 

 no buildings the walls or boards of which left bare are 

 anything but sightly ? But the ugliest walls and buildings 

 may be covered may be converted into breadths of 

 beautiful foliage and flowers by the use of climbing plants. 

 Various are the objects to which these climbing plants 

 may be applied, as for instance to cover trellis-work and 

 pillars, to be trained in a recumbent position, or to be 

 clipped to form edgings to flower beds ; but my object 

 now is not so much to suggest uses for them as to 

 enumerate and describe the best. Of climbing plants 

 valuable for the beauty of their leaves in winter, the 

 different kinds of Ivy, green and variegated, stand pre- 

 eminent and almost alone. Of the 40 different kinds 

 cultivated here, the following are considered the most 

 desirable : 



Hedera canariensis aurea maculata. A plant of rapid 

 growth, leaves large, well clouded with gold. 



Hedera marginata argentea. Leaves green, broadly 

 margined with silver ; growth free and rapid ; the best of 

 the white-leaved Ivies. 



