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flowers. I plant Pansies, Verbenas, Drummond's 

 Phlox, and so forth, among my Pinks and Wall- 

 flowers and others of like compact habit, so that, 

 when the higher slender plants have done blos- 

 soming, the others, which seldom cease flowering 

 till frost, may still clothe the ground with color 

 and beauty. Of course it goes without saying 

 that climbing Vines should not be set where there 

 is nothing upon which they may climb. Indeed 

 that would be simple cruelty nothing more nor 

 less. Everything that needs it should be given 

 a support without fail all the myriad lovely 

 Vines that one may have with so little trouble, and 

 which seem to have been made to wreathe the 

 dwellings of men with freshness and beauty and 

 grace. The long list of varieties of flowering Clem- 

 atis, so many shapes and colors, the numerous 

 Honeysuckles, the Wistaria, Passion - flowers, 

 Morning-glories, Hops, the Dutchman's Pipe, the 

 Coboeas, Woodbine, and many others, not count- 

 ing Sweet Peas and Nasturtiums, these last 

 among the most beautiful and decorative of all, 

 every one is twice as valuable if given the support 

 it demands. In the case of Nasturtiums, how- 

 ever, which seem with endless good-nature ready 

 to adapt themselves to any conditions of exist- 

 ence, except, perhaps, being expected to live in a 

 swamp, it is not so important that they should 

 have something upon which to climb. A very 

 good way is to put them near a rock one wishes to 

 have covered, or to let them run down a bank upon 

 which nothing else cares to grow. They will 

 clothe such places with wild and beautiful luxuri- 

 ance of green leaves and glowing flowers. 



