Coboea begins to race up pillar or wall. Most of all it seems to prefer 

 scandens a light sunny trellis ; on the lightest of supports string stretched 

 and Vine fro m post to post a green veil will soon be formed with 

 numbers of pale erect buds ; as these expand they turn down 

 their trumpet-shaped flowers, which appear first cream, then 

 mauve, and lastly a full purple, and are lovely in form and 

 colour at all their stages. It lasts till cut off by frost, often being 

 still beautiful the end of November and beginning of December. 

 Vltis Coigaetia and V. Tbunbergii from China and Japan 

 have not yet taken on their most brilliant tints. Both are very 

 strong growers, and have very large leathery bright green leaves, 

 which in Autumn turn red, orange and yellow. Thunbergii is 

 the richest in colour of the two, but a little less vigorous. A very 

 charming, but much smaller Vine both in foliage and growth is 

 Vltis heterophylla humulifolia the bunches of turquoise blue 

 berries form its great delight ; to get their full colour they must 

 have plenty of sun and the warmth of a wall. 



Vines are first-rate for covering pergolas, as they keep well 

 clothed to the bottom, and the colour of the leaves is much 

 heightened when seen with the light through them against the 

 sky. If the pergola winds through a shrubbery, or near trees, 

 the long trails should be allowed to tumble naturally, or branches 

 may be led up into the trees. I have seen Coigflctia spreading 

 in this way from the top of a pergola into a neighbouring Yew 

 tree the dark evergreen making a beautiful setting for the 

 magnificent foliage either in its light green summer dress, or 

 decked in its autumn hues. Two other very different pictures 

 are in my remembrance ; one where it was trained on a low 

 terrace-wall, as foreground to purple and brown moor, with 

 boughs of a strong, late blooming yellow Rose, resembling 



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