OUR COUNTRY HOME 



with the brown velvety winged seeds. Although capricious in 

 this severe climate, even dying to the ground some winters, it seems 

 to emerge again with renewed vigor in June, ready to make up 

 for its tardy appearance. Its stiff stems do not take kindly to 

 training, but by constant tying I have induced it to grow horizon- 

 tally along the front of those same window boxes, where it blos- 

 somed and seeded in a most gratifying manner. 



Perhaps the nature of vines, or creepers, as our English cousins 

 call them, appeals particularly to womankind. It certainly is 

 wonderfully interesting to watch their varied methods toward 

 success. Apparently the most helpless creations in the vegetable 

 world, with what skill and grace they manage to get their own way, 

 and what garlands of beauty and fragrance they offer to the 

 sturdier inhabitants of the forest that are willing to support them! 



