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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
SECTION VL 
VINES AND CLIMBING PLANTS. 
Value of this kind of Vegetation. Fine natural effects. The European Ivy. The Virginia 
Creeper. The Wild Grape Vine. The Bittersweet. The Trumpet Creeper. The Pipe 
Vine, and the Clematis. The Wistarias. The Honeysuckles and Woodbines. The Jas- 
mine and the Periploca. Remarks on the proper mode of introducing vines. Beautiful 
effects of climbing plants in connection with buildings. 
Quite over-canopied with lush woodbine, 
With sweet musk roses, and with eglantine. 
Shakspeare. 
I N E S and climbing plants are ob- 
jects full of interest for the Landscape 
Gardener, for they seem endowed with 
the characteristics of the graceful, the 
beautiful, and the picturesque in their 
luxuriant and ever-varying forms. 
When judiciously introduced, therefore, nothing can so easily 
give a spirited or graceful air to a fine or even an ordinary 
scene, as the various plants which compose this group of the 
vegetable kingdom. We refer particularly now to those 
which have woody and perennial stems, as all annual or 
herbaceous stemmed plants are too short-lived to afford any 
lasting or permanent addition to the beauty of the lawn or 
pleasure-ground. 
Climbing plants may be classed among the adventitious 
beauties of trees. Who has not often witnessed with delight 
in our native forests, the striking beauty of a noble tree, the 
