THE DRAPERY OF VINES 307 



green to purple -black, hanging on, as impervious 

 to cold as leaden bullets, through the fiercest Winter 

 .storms. 



The group of Cedars on this bank have been 

 chosen by the Waxwork and Virginia Creepers for 

 trellises upon which to display all their ambition 

 for high climbing and their capabilities for draping, 

 looping, and twining, in which they are joined by 

 a veteran, shaggy -barked vine of Fox Grape, also 

 near kin to the Virginia Creeper, its few clustered 

 bunches of amber-purple berries being the ancestors 

 of Isabella, Concord, and other garden favorites. 



What an harmonious trio they make ! The 

 Grape furnishes fragrance in flower and fruit, the 

 Creeper beauty of leaf, and the Waxwork the 

 most highly decorative berry of any vine, either 

 when the little yellow lemons are intact or after 

 they open to display the scarlet seed pulp. Yet, 

 in spite of these great berry wreaths that crown 

 the pointed Cedars, it is the Virginia Creeper which 

 draws the eye by its combined grace and mas- 

 siveness, both displayed by different parts of the 

 same vine. In fact, this creeper, though not an 

 evergreen, is the only American equivalent for the 

 transfiguring Old World Ivy, and, like it, survives 

 transplanting and continues its hopeful upward 



