VINES FOR COTTAGE AND MANSION 167 



climbs to fifty feet or more. It is wonderfully beautiful in the 

 woods of Louisiana but is easily naturalized and worthy of garden 

 space. This vine should not be confused with the deciduous 

 Trumpet Vine, Tecoma radicans^ which bears its showy clusters 

 of tawny red-orange flowers in Midsummer. The Cross Vine 

 has orange-yellow flowers in late Spring and early Summer and 

 is a much more vigorous grower than the later American Trumpet 

 Vine. 



All the Clematis vines are delicate and beautiful, but the 

 easiest to grow, as well as the hardiest, is Clematis paniculata, 

 which is much used for covering trellises and porches and can 

 be relied on for a perennial efl^ect. The large flowering hybrid 

 kinds require deep, moist soils, yet the situation must be well- 

 drained and the soil porous. In the latitude of Savannah and 

 New Orleans and farther South they grow vigorously. In the 

 higher altitudes they need to be protected. The annual vines, 

 such as the Ipomoeas, the climbing Nasturtiums, the graceful 

 and delicate Cypress, the Cardinal Flower, Humulus japonica 

 (the hardy and quick-growing Hop), the ornamental Gourds, 

 the Dolichos or Hyacinth Bean, both red and white, delicate and 

 fragrant in flower and making a thick screen — and many others, 

 are valuable, beautiful, and quick climbers. That Jack-and-the- 

 Beanstalk Vine, the Kudzu, is, perhaps, almost of too rank a 

 growth to be recommended. 



However, the main point is, plant vines and cover up the 

 fences, screen the ugly views and keep them screened and out of 

 sight from month to month and year to year. The simplest 

 cottage is made more attractive by such plantings and the lord- 

 liest mansion is made more gracious by their use. They take 

 up less ground space than any other growing things, and by blos- 

 som and leaf and tendrils do their part to make the world greener, 

 more artistic and less ugly all the time. 



After the beautiful Clematis paniculata has showered its clouds 

 of white fragrance through all the Midsummer days we are sur- 

 prised to find that September brings it fair rivals in two other 

 hardy vines of heart-shaped leaves and wonderful beauty of 

 flower. 



