100 SUBURBAN GARDENS 
buildings whether they are made of wood or 
masonry, for vines not only suffer themselves in 
such recessed locations, but they are distinctly 
a detraction from the appearance of a place 
when so situated. For the corners of angles 
should not be obscured by planting; they must 
be left clean and open if the building is to re- 
tain character and strength. 
Either flat wall composing such an angle 
may be trellised for the support of one of the 
open climbers, however, with good effect, if 
the vine is planted well out on the wall and not 
at or near the inner corner. And trellises them- 
selves are very charming ornamental features 
on the outside of a building, when well de- 
signed and executed. An especially picturesque 
effect results from the use of them horizontally 
above the windows of the lower floor. So 
placed, they afford opportunity for very much 
extended growth to every vine on them; and 
indeed two or three plants, carried by means 
of an upright trellis to these transverse sup- 
ports, will creep along and do the work of 
twice or thrice their number in green tracery 
of airy branches against the background of 
the house. Honeysuckle is particularly 
adapted to this method of trellising, for its 
lower growth is usually light anyway while its 
