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neighbourhood ; now the ordinary kind and the various other 
forms of this fine wild flower adorn the woods. In this way 
also the Lily of the Valley has been introduced and is spread- 
ing rapidly. Many climbing Roses and various other climbers 
have been planted at the bases of trees and stumps, but, 
though thriving, the plantation is as yet too young to show 
the good effect that these will eventually produce. There is 
Large-flowered Clematis. 
no finer picture at present to be seen in gardens than a free- 
growing flowering creeper, enjoying its own wild way over an 
old tree or stump, and sending down a rain of flower-laden 
shoots. A Clematis montana here, originally trained on a 
wall, sent up some of its shoots through a tree close at hand, 
where, fortunately, they have been allowed to remain, and 
now the long shoots hang from the tree full of flowers. The 
large plumes of the nobler hardy Ferns are seen here and 
