St ARBORETUM NOTES. 
AMPELIDEZ:, 
VITIS VINIFERA. 
Loudon, 0. 1, 4700 
Vitis It is a much disputed question, whether the 
ale common Vine is an aboriginal native of Italy. 
Targioni Tozzetti was of opinion that it was so, 
and Bentham seems to agree with him.* At any 
rate, whether strictly indigenous or not, it is com- 
pletely established as a wild plant in the Roman 
territory ; it grows in great abundance in the 
abrupt ravines and on the broken rocky banks in 
the Campagna, between Rome and the Ciminian 
hills, where it forms beautiful festoons, entwining 
the Spanish Broom, and mingling with the 
Clematis vitalba and Lathyrus sylvestris. It seems 
to be equally established in Portugal, where 
Southey in his Letters speaks with enthusiasm of 
its beauty. 
VITIS QUINQUEFOLIA. 
Lamarck. 
Smith and Abbot, Insects of Georgia. 
Tab. 3a: 
AMPELOPSIS HEDERACE2. 
Loudon, v. 1. 482. 
ap oad ag The Viginian Creeper is, to my thinking, one of 
the most beautiful and valuable of the hardy 
climbing plants that we have in cultivation. In 
* See, in the Journal of the Horticultural Society, vol. 9, an interesting 
review by G, Bentham of Targioni Tozzetti's ‘‘ Cennt Stovici sulla introduziont 
di varie piante.”’ 
