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These notes can only touch upon the more careful 

 use of a few of the many climbing plants and trailing 

 shrubs. One of the many garden possessions that I 

 ardently desire and can never have is a bit of rocky 

 hill-side; a place partly of sheer scarp and partly of 

 tumbled and outcropping rock-mass, for the best use 

 of these plants. There would be the place for the 

 yellow winter Jasmine, for the Honeysuckles both 

 bushy and rambling, for the trailing Clematises lately 

 described and for the native C. Vitalba, beautiful both 

 in flower and fruit ; for shrubs like Forsythia suspensa 

 and Desmodium penduliflorum, that hke to root high 

 and then throw down cascades of bloom, and for the 

 wichuraiana Roses, also for Gourds and wild Vines. 

 There should be a good quarter of a mile of it so that 

 one might plant at perfect ease, one thing at a time 

 or one or two in combination, in just such sized and 

 shaped groups as would make the most delightful 

 pictures, and in just the association that would show 

 the best assortment. 



I have seen long stretches of bare chalky banks for 

 year after year with nothing done to dispel their bald 

 monotony, feeling inward regret at the wasted oppor- 

 tunity ; thinking how beautiful they might be made 

 with a planting of two common things. Clematis Vitalba 

 and Red Spur Valerian. But such examples are with- 

 out end. 



