Selections of Hardy Exotic Plants 207 



Climbing and Twining Plants for Thickets, Hedgerows, 

 and Trees. 



Ampelopsis bipinnata. 



„ cordata. 



,, hederacea. 



,, tricuspidata. 



Apios tuberosa. 

 Aristolochia Sipho. 



„ tomentosa. 



Calystegia dahnrica. 

 Cissus orientalis. 

 Clematis flammula. 

 „ montana. 



Clematis Viticella, and 



others. 

 Hablitzia tamnoides. 

 Jasminum nudiflorum. 



,, officinale. 

 Lathyrus grandiflorus. 

 ,, latifolius. 

 „ rotundifolius. 

 „ tnberosus and 

 others. 

 Lonicera, in variety. 



Menispermum canadense. 

 „ virginicnm. 



Periploca grseca. 

 Roses, single, in great var. 

 Smilax, hardy kinds. 

 Tamus communis. 

 Tropseolum pentaphyllum. 



„ speciosum. 



Vitis, various. 

 Wistaria frutescens. 

 ,, sinensis. 



These selections are proposed only as aids to those dealing 

 with special positions. The selection and best guide to the ' 

 material for the beginner will be found in the Chapter on 

 the principal types of Hardy Exotic Plants for the wild 

 garden. 



Rabbits. 



This sad subject has been kept for the last, as the only 

 disagreeable one in connexion with the wild garden. 



It is incalculable the injury rabbits do to young trees 

 alone ; indeed, where they prevail there is no chance of 

 getting up cover except at an extravagant cost. Hares are 

 less destructive, if they damage trees at all ; and it is said by 

 experienced gamekeepers that they never thrive so well 

 where rabbits abound. And as regards pheasants, rabbits 

 drive them away by eating down the evergreen cover so 

 necessary for shelter in winter. Pheasants will not remain 

 in a wood where there is not shelter of this kind ; and nothing 

 are they more partial to than the Holly, which ought to 

 abound in every wood, but which the rabbits destroy first. 

 Here are two sorts of game— hares and pheasants — which 

 many can never have enough of, and the existence of which 



