304 THE DRAPERY OF VINES 



Of the ninety or so vines of the northeastern 

 states, twenty comprise all those, exclusive of gar- 

 den escapes, that have real landscape value. These 

 make themselves felt in different ways and degrees, 

 sometimes as a whole, then either by leaf and ten- 

 dril, flower or fruit, or by only one of these, so that 

 to appreciate vines one must be able to recognize 

 them under all conditions, as we know the trees. 



As standard plants may be roughly classified as 

 herbs and shrubs, so may landscape vines be grouped 

 as herbaceous and woody climbers, the first being 

 those that, coming from either perennial roots or 

 seed, make a new growth each year, being cut 

 down to the ground only or wholly killed by frost; 

 the second, the vines of hardy stems, which go on 

 increasing in size from year to year, until, as in the 

 case of the Poison Ivy, Virginia Creeper, and Wax- 

 work or Bittersweet, the stem often attains such 

 proportions that it remains standing and treelike 

 after the support to which it originally clung has 

 fallen away. All of these vines flower during Sum- 

 mer, according to locality and situation; in fact, I 

 can recall no northern climbing vine that is rep- 

 resented among the early Spring flowers, though 

 ground Trailing Arbutus, evergreen Ground Pines, 

 Club Mosses, Flowering Moss or Pyxie, technically 



