210 COME INTO THE GARDEN 



used on it, likewise on the arbor's Italian cousin 

 — or brother — the pergola. Nothing else is 

 truly suitable and appropriate. 



Of annual vines there is only this to say; the 

 place which gives space to them is sacrificing 

 permanent beauty to very little gain in even 

 present effects. For good hardy vines, planted 

 in the spring or fall, will grow almost as much 

 in their first summer as any annual. Forty to 

 fifty feet in a single season is the average growth 

 of the kudzu vine, with a capacity for surface 

 covering that is immense, each long extending 

 branch sending out side shoots and spreading 

 to an unbelievable degree. And the other hardy 

 vines which are useful for shade or screen are 

 none of them slow growing. So there is nothing 

 gained by introducing the annuals, save where 

 they will not conflict with, or hinder, the peren- 

 nial growth. 



The real gain in time and effect comes through 

 getting vines set out the instant building opera- 

 tions are over. Indeed they need not be over 

 altogether; all that is necessary to admit vine 

 planting is a cleaned up base line about the dwell- 

 ing — and suflBcient protection to the vines after 

 they are in the ground to keep them from being 

 trampled. Stakes driven around them will do 

 this; and lumber may be lying about and work- 



