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porches, or growing on arches. The foliage is 

 dense, and a beautiful glossy green, and the in- 

 numerable tiny starlike flowers at the close of 

 August, turn the plant into a veritable sheet of 

 white. 



The large flowering type of Clematis is an en- 

 tirely different plant, one that is not much suited 

 as a climber, but rather a subject for growing on 

 pillars. 



The Chinese Cinnamon Vine and the Japanese 

 Kudzu Vine are both very popular, but both die 

 down to the ground in the fall after frost, and 

 start growth anew in the spring. 



The first mentioned has pretty, glossy, heart- 

 shaped leaves, and the blossoms give off an abun- 

 dance of pleasing perfume that fills the air round 

 about in midsummer. It is a rapid grower when 

 it becomes once established. 



The Kudzu Vine is the most rapid grower that 

 we know anything about. Established plants have 

 been known to grow twenty feet in a week. The 

 foliage is large and of a tropical appearance, and 

 the plant perseveres and grows under the most 

 adverse of conditions. Try to stop it from grow- 

 ing and see if you have not struck a snag. 



An excellent but rather slow-growing evergreen 

 vine that has the added advantage of producing 

 bright orange-red berries that stay on the vine 

 almost all winter is the Evonymus radicans. This 



