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THE PARKS AND GARDENS OP PARIS. 



[Chap. VI. 



There are remedies for some of our garden-troubles if people 

 will only try to find them out. There are few more unprofitable 

 and tedious labours than that of continually pruning and training 

 climbing plants. In many positions we can only partially avoid 

 this ; in others we can avoid it altogether, and obtain a much 

 more beautiful result. For example, many vigorous trailers and 

 climbers are more beautiful planted out on banks of turf and let 

 alone than under the most careful training. Such effects are, of 



WREATHS ON TREES. — Lnxembonrg Gardens. 



course, most suitable for the wilder and more picturesque spots, 

 but in some degree they may be carried out in any part of the 

 garden. That is to say, climbing Eoses might be allowed to grow 

 naturally, and be at the same time so thinned out and otherwise 

 attended to that they would not become weak in flower or growth. 

 There are also here some edgings of pegged-down Roses which 

 form very beautiful margins to masses of flowering shrubs and the 

 like. It is one of the ways in which the Eose, so often grown on 



