V1TIS. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



VITIS. 867 



brilliant autumnal colours. This is self-sup- 

 porting, and will attach itself firmly to, and 

 climb to the tops of high walls a useful quality. 

 Vitis Coignetise (Crimson-leaved Vine]. 

 For many years a Vine clambering over a tall 

 Pine in Mr. Anthony Waterer's nursery at 

 Knap Hill has been at once a puzzle and a 

 delight to all who have seen it. The foliage 

 before falling turns a glorious crimson, making 

 one of the most beautiful of autumn garden 

 pictures. There is now every reason to 

 believe that it is Vitis Goignetice, of which 

 numerous plants have been lately raised in this 

 country from seeds collected in Japan. The 

 under-surface of the leaf is covered with a 



V. inconstans. As is the case with so 

 many of the Vines, this shows great variety in 

 the shape of the leaves, and this tendency to 

 variation shows itself also in the colours the 

 leaves put on in autumn. In the best forms 

 the leaves assume various rich tints of purplish- 

 red and crimson. There is also a form whose 

 foliage has a bronzy hue more or less through- 

 out the season, but especially when young. 

 Cuttings. Japan. Syns. Ampelopsis Veitchi 

 and A. tricuspidata. 



V. Romaneti. It has large leaves, differ- 

 ing from all the Vines in cultivation (except 

 Spinovitis Davidi] in having the branches and 

 petioles covered with bristles or stout hairs. 



Vitis heterophylla variegata. 



woolly-brown down, and in size of leaf and 

 vigour of growth it is at least the equal of any 

 other Vine. 



V. heterophylla (Hop-leaved Vine}. A 

 variety of this, known as humulifolia, is the 

 most beautiful of the various forms of this species, 

 and in autumn bears pretty turquoise-blue 

 berries. This Vine requires in most places a 

 position on a wall in order to induce it to fruit 

 with proper freedom, and succeeds better in 

 dry, poor soil. A variegated form is pretty, 

 the foliage being mottled with white or faint 

 pink. A sheltered, sunny position is neces- 

 sary to develop the variegation to its full 

 extent. China, Japan, and Corea. 



Spinovitis Davidi is nearly allied to 

 V. Romaneti, having the same bristly or even 

 prickly character. Both this and V. Romaneti 

 assume purplish-red autumn tints. 



V. Vinifera (Common Grape Fme).Of 

 the numerous varieties of the common Grape 

 Vine the following may be alluded to : Pur- 

 purea. This is one of the deepest purple- 

 foliaged plants we possess. Although the 

 colour becomes most intense in autumn the 

 leaves have a bronzy-purple tinge from the 

 first. Var. apiifolia is the Parsley- leaved 

 Vine. Its leaves are very deeply cut, fre- 

 quently into several leaflets, which are again 

 deeply lobed. Besides these there are the 

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