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fences and arches the Hop is very graceful and luxuriant, 

 and even the variegated form of Humulus Japonicus, 

 the variety usually grown, is quite pretty. 



Raising Gourds is very popular in my family, and a 

 single package of mixed seed will frequently yield some 

 very strange results. Some of the curious fruit is quite 

 ornamental, but the vines are hardly suitable for plant- 

 ing save in out-of-the-way places. We start the seed 

 indoors in small pots and transplant when danger from 

 frost is past. 



Adlumia cirrhosa, variously known as Allegheny 

 Vine, Mountain Fringe, Climbing Fumatory, Wood 

 Fringe, and Fairy Creeper, is a frail biennial vine which, 

 however, blooms the first year from seed, of endearing 

 qualities and beguiling grace. Mrs. Earl, in her charm- 

 ing "Old Time Gardens," thinks that no garden is com- 

 plete without it, "for its delicate green Rue-like leaves 

 lie so gracefully on Stone and brick walls, or on fences, 

 and it trails its slender tendrils so lightly over dull 

 shrubs that are not flowering, beautifying them afresh 

 with an alien bloom of delicate little pinkish flowers like 

 tiny bleeding hearts." Given a rich, warm soil and a 

 sunny exposure, this frail little climber will sometimes 

 reach a height of twelve feet and throw itself about in an 

 extravagance of airy festoons and garlands quite be- 

 witching to see. 



Last, but most important, are the two annual climb- 

 ers most in use : the Nasturtium and the Sweet Pea. The 



