in a trench, and used yearly in making flower- 

 beds and be placed under newly-set trees. Thus 

 one of the most offensive nuisances is converted 

 into profit and grandeur. The fine vines that 

 you have admired in these photos are growing 

 in borders dug out, two feet wide and two and 

 one-half feet deep. The night-soil and earth 

 were mixed in the bottom, making a compost 

 about eighteen inches deep. Good soil was 

 used on top. Having such a depth of earth, 

 there was scarcely any water applied until real 

 hot weather, and then but comparatively little. 

 To get vines, caladiums, cannas and all 

 rampant, vigorous-growing plants to do well, 

 throw out all the soil in the bed or border, and 

 mix in a new supply of compost every year. 



Photo 162. 



HARDY VINES. 



It is preferable to train the 

 hardy vines on trellises, brick 

 buildings, old trees, etc., and not 

 to have them on wooden structures. 

 In photo 151 you see a beautiful 

 arbor. This is the Virginia Creeper 

 or common American Ivy, some- 

 times called "woodbine." This 

 bower was made in iSSr. Though 

 over twenty years old, it seems to 

 increase in beauty every year. The 

 leaf of that vine you will readily 

 recognize in the upper left-hand 

 corner of photo 152. The leaf in 

 the upper right-hand corner is the 

 variegated hop. The creamy yel- 

 low stripes of the leaf do not ap- 

 pear here, as yellow takes dark in a 

 photograph. The leaf in the cen- 

 ter of that photo is the ampelopsis veitchii, or common "Boston Ivy," the very best plant 

 ever grown for brick or stonework. See how it covers the brick, as shown on the corner 

 of the house, in photo 153. In the lower left-hand corner of photo 152 is that dangerous 

 little fellow, ike poison ivy. The poison of this plant will not affect some people, while 

 others will be affected by its poison carried on the wind. The antidote for this poison is 

 a tea or wash made from the common "plantain," which you will see in the same photo- 

 graph. 



THE PANSY. 



Ah, modest, human-faced, wonderful, far-renowned pansy ! Where is the child, the 

 hurried woman, the busy man or the venerable patriarch that does not admire thee? 

 How all desire to have a good pansy-bed, and how very few succeed ! Yet the pansy is 

 one of the easiest and simplest plants to grow. The gorgeous pansies of to-day are 

 evoluted from the wee little "birdseyes" or "johnny-jump-ups" that grow wild in the 

 open fields in Europe. It is claimed that a young German lady commenced their im- 

 provement. See where we are to-day, and still improving ! What a lesson on possibilities! 



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Photo 163. 



