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choicer plants, selected from such subjects as may 

 reasonably be expected to give a fair return either 

 in flowers or berries. Fyrus Jajyonica, the Honey- 

 suckles, the climbing Roses, the Clematis, the 

 "Wistaria, Jasminum nucUJlorum, flowering in the 

 winter and early spring, and /. officinale during the 

 summer months ; the Cotoneasters ; the Crataegus, 

 beautiful during the winter when laden with its 



for climbers of robust growth, such as the Wistaria, 

 the evergreen and deciduous Magnolias, Garrya 

 elliptica, and the Passion-flower [Passiflora ccerulca). 

 AVe strongly urge that every available foot of wall 

 surface that is accessible be furnished with climbers, 

 so that the utmost j)ossible retui'n may be secured out 

 of such limited spaces as town and suburban gardens 

 afford. 



Plans for Back Gardens in Tkrrace Houses. 

 1, Beds ; 2, gravel ; 3, grass ; 4, shrubbery or rock-work to bide bottom wall. 



brilliantly coloured berries, and suited for a north or 

 east aspect ; and the Euonymus latifoUiis for its foli- 

 age, where nothing else besides the Ivy will thrive, 

 will each and all give satisfaction. The evergreens 

 should be judiciously intermixed with the deciduous 

 species, but a list of e«ch will be more fully given 

 when we come more specially to consider that part 

 of the subject. 



Against the walls of the house more room will 

 generally be found on the garden side of the bidlding 



By occuppng only a limited portion of the side 

 borders with shrubs of a bush form, there would be 

 room enough for a fair quantity of flowering plants, 

 such as the ordinary run of bedding plants, those 

 of the hei-baceous section, and annuals even, when it 

 is not deemed necessary to have many of the first- 

 named kinds. The shrubs as they increase' in size 

 will occupy too much room, and it will be better 

 then to exchange them for smaller ones than to 

 allow this increase in size to go on. 



