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aware that many Creepers must be pruned ; but what I contend 

 is, that in many gardens the pruning and training of Creepers 

 and climbing plants is very much overdone. In many cases the 

 plants are cut quite out of character, to say nothing of spoiling 

 the prospect of a mass of flowers. Many a humble cottage has 

 its Creepers that are a treat to see when in flower, yet in nine 

 cases out of ten they are but little pruned. 



As regards a collection of Creepers for a large garden, I would 

 say grow all I have mentioned. Do not forget the Clematis ; 

 they are not half enough planted. Give them a good rich soil ; 

 let them ramble at will, particularly if they are to cover trunks 

 of trees or rockwork. 



For early spring flowering the lovely Wistaria is one of our 

 finest Creepers for covering high buildings ; so also is Cydonia 

 japonica, which in April and early May gives a wonderful splen- 

 dour to the walls on which it grows. The sweet Woodbines 

 (Honeysuckles) of the cottage should be more thought of in large 

 gardens, including the varieties known as Large Dutch (Lonicera 

 Halleana) and the scarlet- trumpet Honeysuckle. Bignonia 

 radicans is also a charming Climber for a building or high wall,, 

 and forms a fit companion for Aristolochias, with Ceanothus to 

 ramble at the foot of them. Also I would recommend the 

 charming Escallonias, Choisya ternata, Jasminums of sorts for 

 low walls, to be used with Ampelopsis of sorts and free-flower- 

 ing Eoses, and for a foliage plant the Exmouth variety of the 

 Magnolia. 



For a bright sunny wall Passiflora ccerulea is a rapid grower 

 and a free-flowering plant of great beauty, and should have for a 

 companion the beautiful Vine, Vitis heterophylla purpurea, for 

 winter and early spring. 



Pyracanthas planted in company with the sweet Chimonan- 

 thus fragrans are very fine Climbers, and if some of the variegated 

 Ivies are allowed to grow with them they form a very pretty 

 covering indeed. Jasminwn nudiflorum, berried Cotoneasters 

 of sorts, Forsythia viridissima, with Simlax asperrima, are all 

 very beautiful in their season of flowering, while the non-flower- 

 ing Creepers climbing among the berried plants all tend to show 

 off the charms of their deciduous companions. 



Garrya elliptica is a very beautiful evergreen shrub, and well 

 adapted for the covering of walls. Its elegant pendulous catkins 



