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The Wild Garden 



down by landscape-gardfizieis— perpetuate the notion 

 that a, garden is a 'work of art, and therefore we 

 must not attempt in it to imitate nature!' the true, 

 garden differing from all other arts in this that it 

 gives us the living things themselves, 

 ^ and not merely representations of them 

 in paint or stone or wood. 



Where there are bare slopes, 

 an excellent effect may be ob- 

 tained Jay planting the stouter 

 climbers, such as the Vines, 

 Mountain Clematis, and Honey- 

 suckles, in groups on the grass, 

 away from shrubs or low trees ; 

 while, when the banks are 

 precipitous or the rocks crop 

 forth, we may allow a curtain 

 of climbers to fall over them. 

 Endless charming combina- 

 tions may be made in this 

 way in many spots near country houses. The 

 following are among the climbing and clinging 

 hardy plants most suitable for garlanding copses, 

 hedges, and thickets : — Everlasting Peas (many kinds), 

 the Honeysuckles, Clematis (wild species mainly), the 

 common Jasmine, BrambleSj. Vines^ (American and the 

 common varieties), single Roses, Virginian creepers 

 (Ampelopsis), the large Bindweed (Calystegia dahurica), 

 Aristolochia^ Sipho, and A. tomentosa, and several of the 



THE NOOTKA BBAMBLE. Typs of freo- 

 giDwing fiowerixig Bhrub. For copses 

 and starubbeiy. 



