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immensely gay. Many people like to have Ivy, 
for -when it grows well nothing looks prettier 
both in summer and winter ; and there is also a 
delightful Evergreen Bose which does well in 
warm places ; or you might have an evergreen 
shrub planted at each corner, besides many other 
things. Privet is very pretty and makes a beau- 
tiful close green ; I think it is quite a shame that 
it is so turned out of flower-gardens, for unless 
Myrtles grow well, as they do in the Isle of 
Wight, few plants are greener. 
A pretty Box-tree would do well here, too, or 
a little Holly very well indeed, and then you 
would have at Christmas Holly and Ivy of your 
own peculiar growth. You ought to plant some 
evergreens if you mean to have a garden full 
of spring-flowers in the early spring, which I 
would not miss for anything. Then there should 
be a Vine, and perhaps a Yirginian-Creeper, 
which grows very quickly and has red leaves in 
autumn which hang on amidst the Ivy for a long 
while sometimes. 
The Ivy itself does not always grow very fast. 
People seem to fancy that it will grow anywhere 
and does not want any care — which is a great 
mistake. If it were planted in plenty of good 
