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and in fruit, as note especially bittersweet. Some 

 are very fragrant when in bloom, for example wild 

 grape and Hall's honeysuckle. Many vines, like 

 the wild grape, grow with great rapidity and often 

 smother the host that gives them support. It is 

 dangerous, therefore, to plant them about shrubs, 

 and caution should be exercised when they are near 

 trees, for a vigorous grapevine will soon reach the 

 top of the tallest growth in a forest. For covering 

 trellises, lattice-work and walls, however, vines are 

 exceedingly useful, and they often form most attrac- 

 tive ground covers. 



HERBACEOUS FLOWERING PLANTS 



Many books have been written about flowers and 

 flower-gardens, but no description can convey an 

 adequate idea of the beauty and perfume of a peony, 

 iris, or lily, to say nothing of the rose. To obtain 

 a knowledge of flowers, one must see them at close 

 hand and know them by smell as well as by sight. 

 They belong in every near-by landscape, where they 

 may enhance the general effect, and also in the gar- 

 den for cut-flowers, and in special gardens for the 

 display of one or more kinds of bloom. There 

 are hardy flowers, from the snowdrops of March 



