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(Jasminum officinale ,) out of the garden, as even there it 
requires a slight protection in winter. Below the latitude 
of Philadelphia, however, it will probably succeed well. In 
the southern states they have a most lovely plant, the Caro- 
lina Jasmine, ( Gelseminum ,) which hangs its beautiful 
yellow flowers on the very tree tops, and the woods there in 
spring are redolent with their perfume. 
The connoisseur in vines will not forget the curious Pe- 
riploca, which grows very rapidly to the height of 40 or 50 
feet, and bears numerous bunches of very curious brown or 
purple flowers in summer ; or the Double-blossoming 
Brambles, both pink and white, which often make shoots 
of 20 or 30 feet long in a season, and bear pretty clusters of 
full double flowers in June. All these fine climbers, and 
several others to be found in the catalogues, may, in the 
hands of a person of taste, be made to contribute in a won- 
derful degree to the variety, elegance, and beauty of a country 
residence ; and to neglect to introduce them would be to 
refuse the aid of some of the most beautiful accessories that 
are capable of being combined with trees, as well as with 
buildings, gardens, and fences. 
Some persons object to the growth of climbing plants upon 
trees, that, by compressing the stems and tightening them- 
selves around the limbs of trees, they gradually check their 
growth, and finally by preventing the expansion of the 
trunk, put an end to the life of the tree. This, we have no 
doubt, has been the case when young trees in the full vigour 
of growth have been completely encompassed and wound 
about with the strong growing woody creepers ; but it so 
rarely happens, (scarcely ever in the case of middle-sized 
trees, on which vines are more generally planted,) that we 
consider the objection of no moment. Indeed, were all this 
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