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Among some others of the best plants for the open pergola are the free 

 Japan Honeysuckle, the common but always delightful white Jasmine, the 

 new Polygonum baldschuaniciim, Clematis Flammula, the little-known 

 but quite excellent Clematis paniculata, blooming in October, the large- 

 flowered Clematises, late Dutch Honeysuckle, Cratcegus Pyracantlia, 

 Rhodotypos kerrioides, Kcrria japonica, double flowered Brambles, and 

 Forsythia suspensa. 



There is another class of shady covered way made of flowering trees 

 that differs from the pergola in that w T hen mature it has no adventitious 

 supports whatever, the structure being formed by the trees themselves. 

 It may be of shade trees only, when it comes near the pleached alleys of 

 our ancestors. For this the best trees are Plane, Hornbeam, Wych Elm, 

 and Beech. The Planes should be planted ten to twelve feet apart, and 

 pollarded at eight feet from the ground ; their after-growth is then 

 trained down to a temporary roofing framework of poles. In the case of 

 this tree the sides are open. Hornbeam, Wych Elm, and Beech are 

 trained as they grow to form both walls and roof. But many of the 

 small flowering trees do very well trained as flowering shady ways, 

 though when they have arched over and form a complete roof the 

 flowers are mostly on the outer sides. One of the best for this use is 

 Laburnum, but the beautiful Japanese flowering Apple (Pyrus Mains 

 Jloribunda), the Snowy Mespilus, the Guelder Rose, the Siberian and 

 other fruiting Crabs, are all amenable to the same treatment. 



This leads naturally to covered ways of other fruit trees, and the 

 delights of the fruit garden are much increased by the presence of a 

 naturally formed pergola of Apple, Pear, Plum, Medlar, and Quince 

 trees. 



Some adaptation of the pergola, of a temporary kind, is also extremely 

 useful in the case of a garden that is new and raw, or in some place that 

 is held on a short tenancy, when the tenant wishes to enjoy shade with- 

 out having to wait for the growth of long-lived and slow-grow r ing plants. 

 Any poles, from the hop- pole to the bean-pole size, put up as the frame- 

 work of a covered way, can in one season be clothed with a grand growth 

 of the great Orange Gourds, the Potiron rouge of our French neighbours. 

 These, with others of the ornamental Gourds and quick-growing climbers, 

 such as Japanese Hop, Major Convolvulus, Mina lobata, Canary Creeper, 

 and the trailing Nasturtiums, will give ample shade in the hottest months 

 and a glory of autumn fruit and bloom. 



Plants that are suitable for the open pergola are equally suitable for 

 verandahs, with the addition of some others of the tenderer kinds that will 

 succeed in the shelter and warmth of the sunny house-front, especially in 

 the southern counties. For here we may have, as in Devonshire, Corn- 

 wall, and the Isle of Wight, Fuchsia, Myrtle, Pomegranate, Solanum 

 jn.swinoidcs t and Solanum crispitm, and even a little further north the 

 beautiful Bignonia radicans and the blue Passion-flower. Perhaps a well- 

 grown Wistaria is the best of all verandah plants, for not only does it 

 yield its masses of bloom almost unfailingly year after year, but its foliage 

 is both graceful and handsome, and always looks fresh and clean. 



It is well to think out various combinations for verandah planting 

 thai will give a good succession of flower. Thus, as one example, the 



