LITTLE GARDENS 



which for a mile is hedged with honeysuckle. 

 A walk past the grounds on a quiet evening, with 

 delicate incense pouring from a million censers, 

 is a memorable experience. It can also be grown 

 near the sea, and visitors to Brighton Beach will 

 recall the veranda of the immense hotel, partly 

 overgrown with honeysuckle, its exquisite fra- 

 grance mingling with the saline pungency of the 

 ocean that roars and pounds but a stone's toss 

 distant. 



A useful and handsome vine of larger ex- 

 pansion and more rapid growth is variously 

 known as Boston ivy, Japanese ivy, and ampelop- 

 sis. It has a leaf resembling that of the maple, 

 only more compact and shiny, and in October 

 It vies with that tree in the beauty of its color. 

 It is almost the only plant that shows autumnal 

 tints in town, for there is that in the air of a city 

 which causes vegetation to rust and wither when 

 it has ripened, instead of taking on the sunset 

 glories of the woods. This ivy is a tremendous 

 grower. It will blanket a three-story front in a 

 couple of years, and sprawl over two or three 

 buildings on either side. It throws out hundreds 

 of branchlets that dangle from the stronger stems 

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