Climbers for Trees and Bushes 



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climbing Honeysuckles are now numerous as delight- 

 ful, and require very little encouragement to garland 

 a plantation, and flourish in hedgerow or on bank 

 without care. 



Mr. Hovey, in a letter from Boston, Mass., wrote 

 me as follows, on certain interesting aspects of tree 

 drapery : — 



' Some years ago 

 we planted three 

 or four rows of 

 climbers in nursery 

 rows, about 100 

 feet long ; these 

 consisted of the 

 Virginian Creeper, 

 the Moonseed 

 {Menis££ntium), 

 Periploca graeca, 

 and Celastrus scan- 

 dens ; subsequent- 

 ly, it happened that 

 four rows of Arbor- ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ,ceiastbu3). isoiated on the 



,•(■«£. -ajc^r-e- nlanted OEASa: way of SrowinJ woody Climbers away from walto 



VlL^S WCIC piaiii.>-<J or other supports. 



on one side, and 



about the same number of rows of Smoke trees, Phila- 

 delphus, and Dogwood (Cornus florida) on the other. For 

 three or four years many of these climbers were taken 

 up annually until rather too old to remove, and year by 

 year the Arbor-vitaes and shrubs were thinned until what 

 were too large to transplant remained. The land was 

 not wanted then, and the few scattered trees and climbers 



