Climbing Plants. 



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in gardens — that of having a bed of small plants in immediate connection with impor- 

 tant masonry. The wistaria, with its probable ultimate fate, is the more to be regretted 

 because the plant itself is in fine, young vigour, ha\'ing got oy&x the earlier stage of 

 standing still for the first few years, as is the way of its kind. This fine plant ma}' 

 be used in many 

 ways — on garden 

 and house walls, 

 on pergolas and 

 arbours. The 

 newer Japanese 

 kind {W. mitUijuga) 

 is as easily grown 

 as the older W. 

 C h i 11 e 11 s i s , but 

 although the 

 racemes of flower 

 are much longer, 

 it is hardly a more 

 attractive plant 

 than the better- 

 known kind. 



Besides the 

 walls where climb- 

 ing plants are 

 grown for their 

 own beauty there 

 are places in nearly 

 every garden where 

 it is desirable to 

 clothe some rough 

 building or to 

 cover or screen 

 something un- 

 sightly (Fig. 152). 

 For this the 

 rougher of the 

 rambling roses and 

 the wilder of the 

 clematises are in- 

 valuable. The 

 native C. V it alb a 

 covers vary large 

 spaces, and grows 

 fast. Clematis 



FIG. I 



eager 



dj- 



-CLEMATIS MONTAN.V. 



montana is 



to rush up to a considerable height and then to tumble o\'er with sheets of graceful 

 fohage and cataracts of pure white bloom (Fig. 153). Clematis Flammula rambles 

 widely among other growths, flowering in September ; it is followed closely by 

 C. faniculata in October. Space only allows of the barest mention of other good 

 climbing plants — clematis species such as the j^ellow-bloomed C. graveolens ; in 



