A Thousand-Mile Walk 



vines. In some districts almost every tree is 

 crowned with them, aiding each other in grace 

 and beauty. Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennes 

 see have the grapevine in predominant num 

 bers and development. Farther south dwell the 

 greenbriers and countless leguminous vines. 

 A vine common among the Florida islets, per 

 haps belonging to the dogbane family, over 

 runs live-oaks and palmettos, with frequently 

 more than a hundred stems twisted into one 

 cable. Yet in no section of the South are there 

 such complicated and such gorgeously flowered 

 vine-tangles as flourish in armed safety in the 

 hot and humid wild gardens of Cuba. 



The longest and the shortest vine that I 

 found in Cuba were both leguminous. I have 

 said that the harbor side of the Morro Hill is 

 clothed with tall yellow-flowered composites 

 through which it is difficult to pass. But there 

 are smooth, velvety, lawnlike patches in these 

 Composite forests. Coming suddenly upon one 

 of these open places, I stopped to admire its 

 greenness and smoothness, when I observed a 

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