CHAPTER XIII 
Vines For VERANDA DECORATION 
Arranging colours — Hanging baskets — Veranda boxes — How to make 
movable screens and trellises — English ivy as a veranda plant — Euony- 
mus — The best annuals for the veranda — Hardy vines for sunny, 
semi-shady, and shady verandas. 
By reason of their long, graceful, drooping 
growth and foliferous habit, vines are in a class 
by themselves for veranda decoration. But 
while there is only one opinion in this respect, 
there is room for discussion in regard to the kinds 
of vines and the manner of their use. Good 
and bad taste are both exhibited in the use of 
vines, especially of the flowering type. Some 
people create great, gaudy displays of colour, 
vivid in the extreme and full of discord; this is 
distinctly poor taste. I donot say that preferring 
good, lively colours is bad taste, but rather 
the way in which they are sometimes used. For 
instance, a box or hanging basket containing a 
scarlet geranium, a yellow nasturtium, and a 
blue morning glory all jumbled up together, 
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