Chap. XIII.] 



IVY IN PARIS. 



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caves are made in a sloping bank backed with trees. It will be 

 seen from this example that where structures are really required 

 in gardens it is easy to make them ornaments and not eyesores 

 in the garden-landscape. 



Where there are tall bare walls near a house, they are. quickly 

 covered with a close tapestry of Ivy. If the. margin of the grass 

 around some clump of shrubs or flower-beds looks bare, some 



Rocky Caves covered ivith Ivy. 



young plants of Ivy will soon make a wide and graceful edging 

 which will look well throughout the year with slight attention. 

 When Ivy is planted thickly and kept neatly to a breadth of 

 from twelve to twenty inches, it forms a dense carpet of leaves on 

 the ground. The effect of Ivy-bands outside masses of gay 

 flowers is excellent, forming, as they do, a graceful setting for 

 the flower-borders. In some geometrical gardens panels are 

 edged with stone. These Ivy-edgings associate well with such 

 stone borderings, while they may be used with advantage in any 



