CHAPTER VII. 



CLIMBERS FOR TREES AND BUSHES. 



The numerous hardy climbers are rarely 

 seen to advantage, owing to their being 

 stiffly trained against walls, and many 

 of them have gone out of cultivation 

 for this reason. One of the happiest 

 ways of enjoying them is that of 

 training them in free ways over trees; 

 in this way many beautiful effects may 

 be secured. In some low trees a grace- 

 ful creeper may garland their heads; 

 in tall ones the stem only. Some vigo- 

 rous climbers in time ascend tall trees, 

 and there are few more beautiful than 

 a veil of Clematis montana over a tall tree. Many 

 lovely kinds may be grown, apart from the popular 

 climbers, and there are graceful wild Clematises 

 which have never come into gardens. The 

 same may be said of the Honeysuckles, wild Vines, 

 and various other families. Much of the northern 



