Trees, Shrubs and Vines 
and shrubs. Without interference with the foregoing 
lists, they can be interspersed according to the con- 
ditions of the case. It is by these that the final touch of 
ornamentation in natural scenery is afforded. Graceful, 
delicate, artless, and wayward, they seem to symbolize 
childhood better than all else that grows. A_ beautiful 
vine is like a gem of lyric poetry, the consummate ex- 
pression of nature’s tenderness. 
The Park contains forty varieties of vines. Besides 
the ubiquitous wistaria, ampelopsis, and ivy, one will 
find here and there a hydrangea-leaved vine clinging 
to the rocks, which we must, perforce, introduce to the 
reader under the fearful name of Schizophragma hy- 
drangeoides, as it comes from abroad and has no popular 
title. Its strong, glossy leaves finely drape its rocky 
support, and nothing could be better for covering an ex- 
tensive wall. It climbs by aérial rootlets like the ivy. 
A delicate little herbaceous vine with a curiously 
shaped compound leaf and violet flowers having three 
concave petals, is the Akebia guinata, from Japan; and 
from China comes the great-flowered trumpet-flower 
(Tecoma grandiflora), with orange-red bell-shaped 
flowers three inches across, and showy pinnate leaves. 
Hardly inferior is our native species ( Z: radicans), which 
is cultivated abroad. 
Here, too, are the best of the clematis species, hailing 
from Japan and Europe—jfammula, lanuginosa, panicu- 
lata, Jackmanni, and Henryi—superb examples of hor- 
ticultural art, showing most remarkable differences in 
size, tint, and texture of flowers. The paniculata is so 
hardy, luxuriant, and fragrant that it leaves nothing to 
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