Identifier: homegardennotest00jeky (find matches)
Title: Home and garden; notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a worker in both
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932
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Publisher: London, New York, Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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e Chestnuts smooth, deep olive-green-greybark, sometimes above and sometimes below the pre-sent placing of the laces, that their position has beenshifted by the growth of the tree, which, at its age andstrength, has no longer anything to fear. The strength of the Woodbine band and its hard-ness are quite surprising, and many a young stem ofOak and Beech, of Birch and Chestnut, gripped by itsiron coil, remains maimed and distorted for life. In my own copse, within a space of less than halfan acre, all these examples occur, and others of youngBeeches, some of them good examples of the pythoncoils thro^vn out by the constricted tree. It would, ofcourse, be easy to relieve the trees of the damagingclimber, but it is so interesting to watch the struggle,and to see what comes of it, that in this part of thewood I leave it to do as it will. For a long time, seven or eight years as nearly asI can remember, there was one out of the many youngScotch Firs in the upper part of the wood whose then
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-\ss The Lane of the Ghost-cart. WILD HONEYSUCKLE 57 four-inch-thick trunk showed that it had had a fahlystrong twist of Honeysuckle round it. About shoulder-high for some eighteen inches it was of a mild cork-screw shape, and as it stood close to a path on theAvay to church, it became our habit always to look atit, and to observe whether Crinkum, as we called it,would always retain the twist. But as the yearspassed, and the tree grew on in its vigorous youngstrength, it became quite clear that the twist was beingsurely drawn out, and now Crinkum, though he stillanswers to his name, is as straight of stem as any ofhis felloAvs. In another part of my woody ground isa spreading Holly with many stems; three of themfairly large and seven smaller. Here the Honeysuckleruns up in the usual ropes, but having reached thetop, it tumbles down by the side of the shaded pathnearly to the ground in a straight cataract some elevenfeet high. It does not seem to harm the Hollies, butin a general way w

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