ANNUAL VINES 83 
orange, are very freely produced. It is no use 
trying to grow this beautiful vine unless the seed 
can be sown in the greenhouse about the first of 
March and the young plants kept potted on and 
never allowed to become pot-bound. Under 
this treatment, they will start to flower in July 
or August and continue till frost. Although 
requiring a little extra care to get it properly 
started, the plant is in a class by itself as a 
flowering vine for veranda work. About six 
feet is its maximum length, and usually it does 
not get above four feet. It is a twiner and clings 
well. 
A very pretty little vine, with orange-scarlet 
flowers in great profusion during July and August, 
is the rough eccremocarpus (Eccremocarpus scaber), 
a tender, perennial evergreen in the South, but 
treated as an annual in the North. This plant 
grows freely, clings by means of tendrils, and 
attains a height of ten feet. The light green 
foliage is bipinnate, with the leaflets sharply 
incised, and as the growth is loose and the foliage 
sparingly produced, the plant has no value as a 
screen; like the Allegheny vine, which it resembles 
in growth, it is valued only for the beauty of its 
foliage and flowers. The fruit, too, is very 
attractive. 
