VINES AND CLIMBING PLANTS. 
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SECTION VI. 
VINES AND CLIMBING PLANTS, 
Value of this kind of Vegetation. Fine natural effects. The European Ivy. Tin 
Virginia Creeper. The Wild Grape Vine. The Bittersweet. The Trumpet Creeper. 
The Pipe Vine, and the Clematis. The Wistarias. The Honeysuckles and Wood- 
bines. The Jasmine and the Periploca. Remarks on the proper mode of introducing 
vines. Beautiful effects of climbing plants in connexion with buildings. 
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 plea,- 
sure-ground. 
Quite over-canopied with lush woodbine. 
With sweet musk roses, and with eglantine. 
Shakspeare. 
' I N E S and climbing plants are 
f objects full of interest for the Land- 
scape Gardener, for they seem 
endowed with the characteristics 
of the graceful, the beautiful, and 
the picturesque, in their luxuriant 
