252 Creepers anfc Dines. 



In artificial rockeries, many creepers and vines are espe- 

 cially in place, such as periwinkles, silk vines, and ivy. 

 On walls and fences, on the columns and balustrades of 

 verandas, and in similar positions, such exquisite plants as 

 clematis, Boston ivy, and honeysuckle are very useful and 

 attractive. The plants described below are chiefly woody 

 climbers; a few are herbaceous, perennial or annual, and 

 useful for summer effects only. The best are Boston ivy, 

 clematis, ivy, wistarias, climbing roses, and trumpet-flowers. 



THE CROWFOOT FAMILY. 



Virgin's-Bower, Clematis. Most small flowering kinds 

 are known by this popular name, especially the following : 

 C. flammula, a slender, climbing plant with smooth, pin- 

 nate leaves, chiefly oval or oblong, sometimes three-lobed, 

 leaflets, and numerous panicles of white, sweet-scented 

 flowers. A vigorous grower, flowering from the young 

 wood throughout the summer; C. vitalba, the traveller's 

 joy of Europe, is a less vigorous grower with cymes of 

 white, almond-scented flowers in July, and finely cut, pin- 

 nate leaves. C. Virginiana is a common American plant in 

 moist woods and thickets and on river-banks among trees 

 and shrubs. Leaves ternate with cut or lobed segments. 

 Flowers small white, in ample panicles on the summer's 

 growth. All have numerous feathery clusters of fruit later 

 in the season. 



Purple Clematis, Clematis viticella. A fine climber 

 with ternate or entire leaves, ovate-cordate in outline ; and 

 large blue or purple flowers, with four obovate sepals, pro- 

 duced singly on lateral shoots in summer. C. Jackmanni 



