A GARDEN OF 



the wonderful beauty of this plant, and it is 

 being used in England extensively; but I fear 

 the climate there will not bring out its beauty 

 as strikingly as our frosty climate does. If I 

 were asked to choose one vine, foreign or 

 native, for general use, I should select the 

 Ampelopsis. Any one can grow it. It flour- 

 ishes in any soil except a very dry, sandy one. 



A NOTHER excellent vine is Celastrus 

 JL\. scandens, commonly known as Bitter- 

 sweet. It will grow to almost any height 

 provided it is given something to twine about. 

 It is prodigal in its production of branches and 

 foliage. We often come across it in its native 

 habitat with a small tree as its support, and the 

 tree is so laden that it fairly bends beneath the 

 weight of the vine. Its foliage is a bright, 

 pleasing green. Its clusters of small, greenish- 

 white flowers are succeeded by fruit which is 

 enclosed in a shell of orange. In fall, after 

 frost comes, this shell divides in three pieces, 

 and the sections are reflexed enough to show a 

 red berry within. The effect of these orange- 

 and-red clusters pendent from every branch 

 and borne in great profusion all over the vine 



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