. Gardens for small country houses. Gardens. Climbing Plants. 117 in gardens—that of having a bed of small plants in immediate connection with impor- tant masonry. The wistaria, with its probable ultimate fate, is the more to be regretted because the plant itself is in fine, young vigour, ha\'ing got oy&x the earlier stage of standing still for the first few years, as is the way of its kind. This fine plant ma}' be used in many ways — on garden and house walls, on pergolas and arbours. The newer Japanese kind {W. mitUijuga) is as easily grown as the older W. C h i 11 e 11 s i s , but altho
. Gardens for small country houses. Gardens. Climbing Plants. 117 in gardens—that of having a bed of small plants in immediate connection with impor- tant masonry. The wistaria, with its probable ultimate fate, is the more to be regretted because the plant itself is in fine, young vigour, ha\'ing got oy&x the earlier stage of standing still for the first few years, as is the way of its kind. This fine plant ma}' be used in many ways — on garden and house walls, on pergolas and arbours. The newer Japanese kind {W. mitUijuga) is as easily grown as the older W. C h i 11 e 11 s i s , but although the racemes of flower are much longer, it is hardly a more attractive plant than the better- known kind. Besides the walls where climb- ing plants are grown for their own beauty there are places in nearly every garden where it is desirable to clothe some rough building or to cover or screen something un- sightly (Fig. 152). For this the rougher of the rambling roses and the wilder of the clematises are in- valuable. The native C. V it alb a covers vary large spaces, and grows fast. Clematis. FIG. I eager dj- -CLEMATIS montana is to rush up to a considerable height and then to tumble o\'er with sheets of graceful fohage and cataracts of pure white bloom (Fig. 153). Clematis Flammula rambles widely among other growths, flowering in September ; it is followed closely by C. faniculata in October. Space only allows of the barest mention of other good climbing plants—clematis species such as the j^ellow-bloomed C. graveolens; in. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932; Weaver, Lawrence, Sir, 1876-. London, Country Life [etc. ]; New York, C. Scribner's Sons
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