AKISTOLOCHIA SYPHO, COVERING PORCH AND HOUSE. 
Decorative Possibilities of Hardy Climbers. 
A charming and picturesque garden is one in which climbers are freely used. We can imagine a most delightful garden 
where they, in connection with trees and shrubbery, alone are used. If we consider their decorative effect, foliage, grace¬ 
fulness of growth and the great beauty of flowers that many of them have we must admit they are entitled to a more 
important place in our gardens. The free use of the Clematis family alone would give a thousandfold more beauty than is 
obtainable with the most lavish use of bedding plants, and we here not only consider the large-flowered type, but the smaller- 
flowered sorts as well, with their luxuriance of growth and their charming effect when used as tree, shrub, hedge or fence 
drapery. And then the climbing Roses —what a glorious possibility here with their showers of bloom in June ! Climbers 
will not exhibit their charms if trained in a stiff and formal manner ; they must, in whatever position used, be allowed to 
grow untrammeled. My neighbor’s garden furnished a good illustration of this. He had planted common Morning 
Glories all about his porch, with the intention of training them on strings later, but he was diverted from his intention and 
the Morning Glories were allowed to grow as they would. The effect was most charming ; they clambered over every shrub 
they could reach, shared a trellis with a Clematis, and where they could find nothing to climb on formed mounds of green 
of the most tangled and pleasing description. And the Morning Glories, common as they are, if used rightly, produce the 
most delightful effects. One of the right ways is to sow them among the tall grass, or among low bushes and shrubbery. 
