FIG. 184. 



CHAPTER VI. 



VINES AND CREEPERS. 



NO one needs to be reminded of the beauty of vines and 

 creepers. Many of the most vigorous and beautiful 

 vines in the world are indigenous in our woods, in all 

 the States ; growing on the loftiest trees, and clothing 

 even their summits with the waving streamers of their foliage. The 

 different sorts of vines may be distinguished as creepers, twiners, 

 climbers, and trailers. The creepers are those which throw out 

 little roots from their stems as they climb, by which they attach 

 themselves to the bark of trees and rough walls, like the Virginia 

 creeper and English ivy. Twiners, honeysuckles for instance, rise 



