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quickly heal over, and do not become subject to gumming, a 

 disease Cherries and Plums are very prone to if pruned whilst in 

 •a dormant condition. 



I am aware that closely pinched or pruned trees may be 

 made fruitful by regularly subjecting them to root -pruning, but 

 I think the course I have detailed will result in more fruitful and 

 healthier trees. 



HARDY CLIMBING AND TRAILING PLANTS. 

 By Mr. W. C. Leach, F.R.H.S. 

 [Read May 17, 1892.] 



My object in the following paper is not so much to say anything 

 new about climbing plants as to endeavour to bring back if 

 possible to recollection and to favour some of the beautiful old 

 garden favourites which of late years have been so much 

 neglected. 



The class of plants of which I have to treat contains some of 

 the most interesting and beautiful forms in the whole vegetable 

 kingdom. They are exceedingly varied, both in regard to -foliage 

 and flowers, and are admirably adapted for beautifying and 

 covering walls, unsightly buildings, bare trunks of trees, old 

 stumps, &c. ; for trailing over verandahs and rockwork ; for 

 forming bowers and for covering summer-houses with a host of 

 sweet -smelling flowers to mingle with the Ivy and other ever- 

 green or deciduous Climbers. 



As I have said, climbing plants have been very much 

 neglected, and that not only in small gardens but in large ones 

 also. Many large and extensive gardens, for instance, do not 

 possess a single specimen of such a charming plant as the 

 sweet winter-flowering Chimonanthus, or of the red and white 

 Escallonia, or of such foliage plants as the grand Aristolochia 

 Sipho and Vitis heterophylla purpurea, or the common Hop 

 (Humulus Lupulus), to say nothing of those still more common 

 plants, such as the old and beautiful Wistarias (blue and white 

 varieties), the common "Woodbine (Lonicera) and other sweet- 

 scented Honeysuckles, which so often attract the attention of the 



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