Shrubs and Vines 
be desired in that type of a vine, while the large purple 
Jackmanni and the immense creamy-white evry are 
among the choicest of their kind. 
The best of the climbing honeysuckles are here, of 
course with foreign labels, and of roses, our own prairie 
rose, with the crimson rambler, yellow rambler, Balti- 
more Belle, and others from abroad. The omnipresent 
poison-ivy covers many an oak and maple, adds not a 
little to the color-effect of autumn, and seems to injure 
no one. ‘The botanist Gray as a ruleis very dispassion- 
ate in his discussion of plants, but this one provokes 
him to unusual ire, and he calls it ‘‘a vile pest’’! I 
feel more lenient, and have often stopped to admire its 
abundant clusters of whitish flowers, its white berries, 
and the October crimson by which it shows its kinship 
to the sumachs. 
One will find here the bitter-sweet (Ce/astrus scandens), 
with its orange seeds, and the very different bitter-sweet 
(Solanum dulcamara), with its handsome scarlet berries ; 
the Zycium, to all intents a vine, hanging profusely 
along many a wall, purple-flowered and scarlet-berried ; 
also the huge-leaved pipe-vine (Avistolochia sipho), the 
pink-purple everlasting pea (Lathyrus Jatifolia), peri- 
winkle, periploca, the curious trailing juniper, as much 
vine as shrub, and many more. ‘The entire catalogue is 
almost identical with the lists advertised by the fore- 
most florists, and the numerous walls and rockeries, by 
this elegant ornamentation, become a conspicuous feat- 
ure of the Park’s attraction, especially along the walled 
subways, and most of all in their endless tints of glorious 
autumnal coloring. 
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