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HENDERSON’S PICTURESQUE GARDENS 
The Fragrant “Virgin’s Bower” 
The illustration below conveys a good idea of the use and beauty of 
the type of Clematis popularly designated as " Virgin’s Bower,” of which 
C. paniculata and C. Flammula are 'the favorite sorts. 
An Ivy-Clothed Mansion 
The picture above shows a stone house and an old dead tree, both beau- 
tifully clothed with Ampelopsis Veitchii, popularly known as Japan Ivy, Boston 
Ivy, etc. It is a very hardy and luxuriant deciduous vine, clinging by little 
rootlets thrown out from the stem ; the leaves are of a rich green, and change 
in the autumn to crimson. There is no better vine than this for perma- 
nently covering stone or brick walls, rocky cliffs, old stumps, trees, etc. See 
page I4S. 
