VINES AND SHRUBS 



These flat disks adhere to smooth or rough surfaces, and pull 

 the plant over trunks of trees, stone walls, etc. 



In October small, dark berries appear. S it is 



mistaken for poison ivy. which has 3 instead oi 5 leal 

 This is not only harmless, but is often transplanted into our 

 gardens, where it mingles with other vines, covering g 

 posts and old stumps. It is adapted to every variety 1 >i soil. 

 I have been surprised to find it on the very tops of the sand- 

 dunes, where it must catch the salt spray, and nothing 

 but coarse grass can grow. And in the autumn it pai 

 whatever it covers with glorious masses of scarlet . 



Ampelopsis 



Cissus Ampelopsis. — Family, Vine. Color, greenish. Sepals and 

 petals, 4 or 5. Flowers, small, in a Loose, slender panicle. Fruit, 

 a berry the size of a pea, not edible, blue or greenish, 1 I 

 seeded. Leaves, heart-shape or square at base, pointed a1 apex, 



coarsely toothed, occasionally lobed, downy along the veins un- 

 derneath. June. 



A climbing, woody vine, along river-banks, from Virginia 

 to Nebraska and south to Florida. 



Northern Fox Grape 



Vttis labrusca. — Family, Vine. Color, greenish. Leaves, sim- 

 ple, large, rounded or deeply lobed, distantly toothed, covered 

 underneath with rusty wool. Opposite every leaf is a forked 

 tendril, by means of which the plant climbs. Bark, lo 

 stripping off. Flowers, some perfect, others lacking pistils. ( 'alyx, 

 short, obscurely 5-toothed. Corolla, of 4 to 5 petals. Alternating 

 with the 5 stamens are 5 nectar-bearing glands. Pistil, with or 

 without style, and a 2-divided stigma. Fruit, a 2 -celled, 4-seeded 

 berry of a dark-purple color, with thick skin and tough pulp, I 

 inch in diameter. June. 



Sometimes this vine reaches 100 feet in length. It is 

 strong, aggressive, and makes a thicket of its many branches 

 wherever it grows. Its main stem may have a diameter of 

 6 to 10 inches. It is the origin of many ^\ our cultivated 

 grapes — Concord, Isabella. Catawba, etc. 



The word grape means bunch, or cluster, from the old 

 French grappe. 



Fruit ri] »e in Se] >tember < >r < >ct< »ber. M- >is1 1 >r dry thickets, 

 the length of the Atlantic coast, westward to the Alleghany 

 Mountains. 



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