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house will surely be applied to the house also — 

 and trickle down in ugly streaks and stain it. 

 Limit the planting against the house therefore 

 to the Boston ivy, wistaria, honeysuckle, and 

 clematis, with a kudzu vine if there is a large 

 space to be covered. 



All of these may be used, or only one or two; 

 whatever the number of plants required, how- 

 ever, do not go above these five named species 

 unless a screen is wanted instead of shade, as 

 may sometimes be the case. One of the best 

 vines for use under these circumstances is the 

 five-fingered akebi — Akehia quinata. Its merit 

 lies in its particularly clean and rather evenly 

 overlapping loose and graceful leaves, which 

 form an impenetrable barrier to the vision that 

 may seek to penetrate from without, making at 

 the same time a grateful and attractive object 

 to look upon — which a screen should always be. 



Boston ivy I should always plant to clothe 

 foundations and broad, unbroken spaces on a 

 building. Keep it within bounds, however, and 

 never let it round off corners nor hide window 

 frames, columns, or other structural features. 

 Indeed this is the one vine which should never 

 approach a supporting member, for it clothes 

 everything it grows upon so completely that the 

 shape of it is quite concealed and becomes ac- 



