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With vines as with all other garden material 

 I would suggest the useful always in goodly pro- 

 portion; yet there are a few that are purely or- 

 namental which it seems quite impossible, and 

 actually is unnecessary, to do without. One of 

 these is the honeysuckle — Lonicera Halleana — 

 with its ravishing odor that saturates the nights 

 and days during its period of bloom, bathing the 

 senses in delight. Another is the wistaria — 

 Wistaria Chinensis — that for pure beauty is un- 

 rivaled by any other climbing plant and by few 

 indeed of an}^ kind. And still another, for shade 

 and sturdy, clean thrift, is the kudzu vine — 

 Pueraria Thunbergiana — a marvel of rapid 

 growth and of loose and graceful yet overlap- 

 ping green, that throws a perfect shade without 

 being too dense and heavy in effect. Finally 

 there is the Boston ivy — Ampelopsis tricuspidata 

 or A. Veitchi — which is and always will be with- 

 out a rival for covering walls, when a close and 

 somewhat formal growth is desired. For this 

 does no injury to the walls, its flat little disk- 

 fingers simply sticking tight by some process 

 peculiar to themselves and never carrying it 

 under nor around shingles or boards or bricks. 

 I do not find, either, that this vine harbors 

 dampness if planted on open walls as it likes to 

 be, where there is a sweep of wind and sun. 



