In My Garden
The destruction of a pergola by wind and the rotting of posts has left me with a number of climbers—roses, wistaria, lyceum chinense, golden hop, clematis and red honeysuckle. I have put these spare plants along- side various trees ; and though foresters regard climbers, not least honey- suckle, as enemies, I must think that they are as great an attraction as, say, a scarlet nasturtium up a yew hedge ; and the damage is very slight indeed. They may indeed help to defend fruit-blossom. In an ex-garden a spiraea had climbed to the very top of an apple tree that was a particu- larly good bearer, and th the same garden a wild clematis had soared to the top of a tall spruce. One of the features of a lovely garden in Warwickshire, very familiar to me, was a wistaria that had strayed from a pergola to a fir tree and climbed to the very top. The effect was charming.
W. BEACH THOMAS.
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