HOME PLANTING AND LANDSCAPE GARDENING 87 



whole effect should be restful and comfortable and as far 

 removed from fussiness as possible. 



Vines. Especially on the house and buildings, vines add a 

 touch of comfort, as well as wildness and grace, without which 

 few pieces of landscape gardening are complete. Vines of all 

 plants are also the most 

 plastic, convenient, and ac- 

 commodating. With them 

 we may have shade of any 

 degree anywhere we wish, 

 cover anything, from a snag, 

 post, or rock to a factory 

 wall, and we may have fra- 

 grance and flowers and even 

 fruit thrown in for good 

 measure. 



As suggested for the 

 trees and shrubs, make a 

 special study of all the 

 vines adapted for home 

 and park planting in your 

 locality, and include meth- 

 ods of propagating and cul- 

 ture of each. 



The world over, the grape 

 combines in highest degree 

 all the best qualities of both 

 use and beauty. The way 

 our American wild grapes climb the tallest forest trees shows 

 that with proper support they may be carried to any reason- 

 able height. A growth of sixty-three feet of vine from a 

 single bud in a season proves how quickly any extent of 

 wall can be shielded from the hot sun of summer by prop- 

 erly trained grapevines. For covering surface no other vine, 



FIG. 43. California grapes 



Photograph by George C. Husmann, United 

 States Department of Agriculture 



