310 THE IVY, AND ITS USES IN PARISIAN GAUDENS. 



narrow boxes and training it up wirework trellises, so tbat 

 with a few of such a living screen may be formed in any 

 desired part of a room in a few minutes. Sometimes it is 

 permanently planted; and in one instance I saw it beauti- 

 fully used to embellish crystal partitions between large 

 apartments. 



To make the Ivy edgings which are so abundantly employed 

 in and around Paris, plants are easily procm^ed in pots, and 

 at a very cheap rate, at the markets on the quays, or of the 

 nurserymen at Fontenay aux Hoses, who every year grow it 

 in large quantities. It is planted thickly in borders, and 



trailed along in 

 strips from twelve 

 to sixteen inches 

 in width, accord- 

 ing to the size of 

 the beds. It is 

 laid down with 

 wooden pegs, a 

 layer of earth 

 being placed over 

 ^ the stems. When 

 Ii once planted, it 

 I only needs to be 

 kept clear of 

 weeds, and to be 



Ivy screen for the drawing-room with flowers at 



its base. moderately water- 



ed. Under this 



treatment, it forms healthy borders the year after it is planted. 

 In preparing the Ivy for growing against railings and trellis- 

 work that encloses the various parks and gardens, it is 

 trained carefully during the first one or two years, so that 

 all empty spaces may be filled up. At the end of the 

 second year, the railings will be completely covered, and for 

 the future it is only necessary to keep it properly pruned. 



The Ivy used by the City of Paris for ornamenting the 

 flower beds in the squares, the trunks of trees, &c., is grown 

 and propagated at the nurseries in the Bois de Eoulogne. 

 Towards the end of the summer the propagation of the Ivy 



Fig. 138. 



