26 PICTORIAL CULTIVATOR ALMANAC. 
SUPPORTS FOR CLIMBING PLANTS. 
The editor of The Horticulturist gives us the follow¬ 
ing interesting and valuable hints on the supports for 
honeysuckles and climbing loses, with the first of which 
we have been long familiar, and have never, in all the 
highly finished, carved, and painted supports, ever seen 
its equal; 
“ How to make arbors and trellises is no mystery, 
though you will no doubt agree with us, that the less 
formal and the more rustic the better. But how to 
manage single specimens of fine climbers, in the lawn <r 
garden, so as to display them to the best advantage, is ! 
not quite so clear. Small fiuie'ful f ames are pretty-, 
but soon want repairs; and stakes, though ever so stout, 
will rot off at the bottom, and blow down in high winds, 
to your great mortification ; and that too, perhaps, when 
your plant is in its very court dress of bud and blossom. 
u Now the best mode of treating single vines, when 
you have not a tree to festoon them upon, is one which 
many of yon will be able to attain easily. It is nothing 
more than getting from the woods the trunk of a cedar 
tree, from ten to fifteen feet high, shortening in all the 
side branches to within two feet of the trunk, (and still 
shorter near the top,) and setting it again as you would 
a post,, two or three feet deep into the ground.* 
CLIMBING PLANTS ON CEDAR TREES. 
11 Cedar is the best; partly because it will last forever, 
and partly because the regular disposition of its branch¬ 
es forms naturally a fine trellis for the shoots to fasten 
upon. 
u Plant your favorite climber, whether rose, wistaria, 
or honeysuckle, at the foot of this tree. It will soon 
cover it, from top to bottom, with the finest pyramid 
of verdure. The young shoots will ramble out on its 
* Wc owe this hint to Mr Alfred Smith, of Newport, a most in¬ 
telligent and successful amateur, in whose garden we first saw fine 
specimens of this mode of treating, cd mbers. 
side branches, and when in full bloom, will hang most 
gracefully or picturesquely from the ends. 
“ The advantage of this mode is, that once obtained, 
your support lasts for fifty years; it is so firm that winds 
do not blow it down; it presents every side to the kindly 
influences of the sun and air, and permits every blossom 
that opens, to he seen by the admiring spectator. How 
it looks at first, and afterwards, in a complete state, 
We have endeavored to give you a faint idea in this little 
sketch. 
“ Wliat shall those of us do who have neither cot¬ 
tages nor gardens?”—who, in short, are confined to a lit¬ 
tle front and hack yard of a town life, and yet who love 
vi ics and climbing plants with all our hearts? 
“ That is a hard case, truly. But, now we think of 
it, that ingenious and clever horliculleur, Monsieur Van 
IIotjtte, of Ghent, has contrived the very thing for 
you.* Here it is. He calls it a “ Trellis Mobile;” and 
if wc mistake not, it will he quite as valuable for the 
MOVABLE TRELLIS. 
ornament and defence of cities; as the Garde Mobile of 
the Parisians. It is nothing more than a good strong 
wooden box, upon wooden rollers. The box is about 
three feet long, and the double trellis may be eight or 
ten feet high. In this box, the finer sorts of exotic 
climbers, such as Passion Flowers, Everhlooming Roses, 
Maurandias, Ipomea Learii, and the like, may be grown 
with a charming effect. Put upon wheels, as this itine¬ 
rant bower is, it may he transported, as Mr. Van Houtte 
says, “ wherever fancy dictates, and even in the apart¬ 
ments of the house itself.” And here, having fairly es¬ 
corted you hack to your apartments, after our long 
talk about out-door drapery, we leave you to examine 
the Trellis Mobile, and wish you a good morning.” 
Number of Plants Eaten by Different Animals.— 
It has been calculated that 
The Cow eats 276 plants, and rejects 218 
Goat do 
449 
do 
126 
Sheep do 
387 
do 
141 
Horse do 
262 
do 
212 
Hog do 
72 
do 
271 
English and Scotch Acres. —The English acre con¬ 
tains 4,840 square yards—the Scotch, 6,150. The 
Scotch acre, therefore, is rather more than one-fourth 
the largest. 
* Flore des Serrcs 
