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scandens) is another well known climber, which ornaments 

 our wild trees. Its foliage is very bright and shining, and 

 the orange-colored seed-vessels which burst open, and dis- 

 play the crimson seeds in winter, are quite ornamental. It 

 winds itself very closely around the stem, however, and we 

 have known it to strangle or compress the bodies of young 

 trees so tightly as to put an end to their growth. 



The Trumpet Creeper (Bignonia radicans) is a very 

 picturesque climbing plant. The stem is quite woody, and 

 often attains considerable size ; the branches, like those of 

 the Ivy and Virginia Creeper, fasten themselves by the 

 roots thrown out. The leaves are pinnated, and the 

 flowers, which are borne in terminal clusters on the ends 

 of the young shoots about midsummer, are exceedingly 

 showy. They are tubes five or six inches long, shaped like 

 a trumpet, opening at the extremity, of a fine scarlet color 

 on the outside, and orange within. The Trumpet Creeper 

 is a native of Virginia, Carolina, and the states further 

 south, where it climbs up the loftiest trees. It is a great 

 favorite in the northern states as a climbing plant, and very 

 beautiful effects are sometimes produced by planting it at 

 the foot of a tall-stemmed tree, which it will completely 

 surround with a pillar of verdure, and render very orna- 

 mental by its little shoots, studded with noble blossoms. 



One of the most singular and picturesque climbing shrubs 

 or plants which we cultivate, is the Pipe-vine, or Birthworl 

 (Aristolochia siplio). It is a native of the Alleghany moun 

 tains, and is one of the tallest of twining plants, growing 

 on the trees there to the height of 90 or 100 feet, though 

 in gardens it is often kept down to a frame of four or five 

 feet high. The leaves are of a noble size, being eight or 

 nine inches broad, and heart-shaped in outline. The 



