312 THE DRAPERY OF VINES 



main over Winter, serving as a guide to the home 

 of a vine that might be unnoticed in Summer when 

 thick leafage covers its retreat in the same woods 

 beloved of Climbing Nightshade. 



Three other Summer vines there are, landscape 

 factors, and yet veritable wayfarers, appearing to 

 follow wayside fences as persistently as the Knights 

 of the Road do the railway tracks. These are 

 Wild Convolvulus, False Buckwheat, and Wild Hop. 



Wild Convolvulus is the most decorative of the 

 Summer wild vines, and its chaliced flowers of 

 either pure white or pink with white stripes are 

 to be seen mingling with Wild Roses and fragrant 

 Elder blossoms in early Summer. To think of one 

 plant, in fact, is to call to mind the others. No 

 support is too humble for the Convolvulus, a 

 bunch of weeds, a ground wire from a telegraph 

 pole, or a fence will do; and I have seen dead 

 Milkweed and Mullein stalks so completely appro- 

 priated by its clinging stem and clean, triangular 

 leaves as to deceive the unwary into thinking the 

 Convolvulus a standing plant. 



Sunflower Lane is hedged with these lovely 

 flowers every June, their places being taken in 

 late Summer by festoons of Climbing False Buck- 

 wheat, cousin to Tear Thumb, which has a some- 



