DRAPERY FOR TREES AND BUSHES, 45 
There would seldom be need to fear injury to established 
trees. 
Some time ago I saw a Weeping Willow, on the margin of 
a lake, that had its trunk clothed with Virginian Creeper, and 
the effect in autumn, when 
the sun shone through the 
drooping branches of the 
Willow—whose leaves were 
just becoming tinged with 
gold—upon the crimson of 
the creeper-covered trunk by 
was very fine. The Hop is :7% 
a very effective plant for 
draping a thin specimen 
Arbor-vite, or Yew tree, but 
the shoots should be thinned 
out in spring, and not more 
than three or four allowed 
to climb up to the tree. 
When the leader emerges 
The way the climbing plants of the world are 
from the top of the bush, crucified in gardens—winter effect (a faith- 
5 Sul sketch). 
and throws its long, graceful 
wreaths of Hops over the dark green foliage, the contrast 
is most effective. The Wistaria, if planted before its support 
has become old, will combine with excellent effect with any 
single specimen of not too dense a habit. 
A correspondent, who has added largely to the charms of 
a place in Suffolk by means of the wild garden, writes as 
follows :—“ Some time ago I discovered and had removed from 
the woods to the pleasure-grounds a robust round-headed 
