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and not utter exclamations of delight, then they deserve to be classed 

 with those women of the nineteenth century, who are thoroughly 

 " fit for sea-captains." 



For a cottage climber, that will take care of itself better than 

 almost any other, and embower door and windows with rich foliage 

 and flowers, take the common Boursault Rose. Long purplish 

 shoots, foliage always fresh and abundant, and bright purplish 

 blossoms in June, as thick as stars in a midnight sky, — all belong 

 to this plant. Perhaps the richest and prettiest Boursault, is the 

 one called by the nurserymen Amadis, or Elegans ; the flower a 

 bright cherry-color, becoming crimson purple as it fades, with a 

 delicate stripe of white through an occasional petal. 



There are two very favorite climbers that belong properly to 

 the middle States, as they are a little tender, and need protection 

 to the North or East. One of them is the Japan Honeysuckle 

 {Lonicera japonica, or flexuosa*) ; the species with very dark, half 

 evergreen leaves, and a profusion of lovely delicate white and faw^- 

 colored blossoms. It is the queen of all honeysuckles for cottage 

 walls, or veranda pillars ; its foliage is always so rich ; it is entirely 

 free from the white aphis (which is the pest of the old sorts)j and it 

 blooms (as soon as the plant gets strong) nearly the whole summer, 

 affording a perpetual feast of beauty and fragance. "■ The other, is 

 the Sweet>scented Clematis ( 0. flaTnmuld), the very type of deli- 

 cacy and grace, whose flowers are brwdered like pale stare over the 

 whole vine in midsummer, and whose perfume is the most spiritual, 

 impalpable, and yet far-spreading of all vegetable odors. 



All the honeysuckles are beautiful in the garden, though none 

 of them, except the foregoing, and what are familiarly called the 

 " trumpet honeysuckles," are fit ;for the walls of a cottage, because 

 they harbor insects. Nothing, however, can well be prettier than 

 the Red and Yellow Trumpet Honeysuckles, when planted together 

 and allowed to interweave their branches, contrasting the delicate 

 straw-color of the flower tubes of one, with the deep coral-red hue of 

 those of the other; and they bloom with a welcome prodigality from 

 April to December. 



* The " Chinese twining," of some gardens. 



