76 VINES 
times to keep it properly trained on any object. 
Provide a good, sunny location and light yet well- 
enriched soil, and this vine will grow to a height 
of fifteen feet, forming perfectly fairy-like festoons 
of flowers and foliage. 
Another climber, valuable alike for both leaf 
and flower, is the cup-and-saucer vine (Cobea 
scandens). The foliage is green, but the stems 
and the veins of the leaf are tinted with purple 
running into a peculiar bronze hue, so pronounced 
that, at a short distance, the entire plant has a 
decidedly bronze appearance. The growth is loose, 
very irregular and uncertain in its direction, © 
thereby adding still more beauty to the plant. 
It is an excellent boundary fence vine. The 
flowers greatly resemble in form those of the cup- 
and-saucer Canterbury bell (Campanula Medium 
var. calycanthema) and are of about the same 
size; hence, the common name. ~ Their colour is 
greenish purple, and although not produced in 
overwhelming quantities, they are sufficient to 
justify the use of the vine as a flowering plant. 
It is, therefore, well adapted to porches and city 
gardens. 
The cup-and-saucer vine is a good grower, 
reaching a height of twenty feet, clinging very 
close to its support by means of the tendrils with 
