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rambling power of the beautiful Wistaria chinensis, 

 and of the large-leaved Aristolochia Sipho, one of the 

 best plants for covering a pergola, and of the varieties 

 of Ampelopsis, near relations of the Grape-Vine. The 

 limit of these notes only admits of mention of some of 

 the more important climbers ; but among these the 

 ever-delightful white Jasmine must have a place. It 

 will ramble far and fast if it has its own way, but 

 then gives little flower; but by close winter pruning 

 it can be kept full of bloom and leaf nearly to the 

 ground. 



The woods and hedges have also their beautiful 

 climbing plants. Honeysuckle in suitable conditions 

 will ramble to great heights — in this district most 

 noticeable in tall Hollies and Junipers as well as in high 

 hedges. The wild Clematis is most frequent on the 

 chalk, where it laces together whole hedges and rushes 

 up trees, clothing them in July with long wreaths of 

 delicate bloom, and in September with still more con- 

 spicuous feathery seed. For rapid growth perhaps no 

 English plant outstrips the Hop, growing afresh from 

 the root every year, and almost equalling the Vine in 

 beauty of leaf. The two kinds of wild Bryony are also 

 herbaceous climbers of rapid growth, and among the 

 most beautiful of our hedge plants. 



The wild Roses run up to great heights in hedge 

 and thicket, and never look so well as when among the 

 tangles of mixed growth of wild forest land or clamber- 

 ing through some old gnarled thorn-tree. The common 



