THE DRAPERY OF VINES 



or twining about a support, 

 are so classified, but which are 

 commonly re- 

 garded merely 

 as low -growing 

 plants. 



"The Vine" 

 in Bible lan- 

 guage indi- 

 cated the 

 Grape, and at 

 once suggests the climbing rather than the merely 

 prostrate trailing plants. 



The real vines of the landscape are those that 

 drape the ungraceful and screen the unsightly, 

 swinging their branches in the wind as they climb 

 to their tree -top flower-gardens, trailing them in 

 the streams which they try to imitate in the un- 

 dulous motions of their growth, or following the 

 highways to decorate and drape neglected walls and 

 fences by their presence. 



