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Vines, Hardy and Tender* 



ADENOCALYHNA COHOSUM— This is one of the best tender vines 

 where it can be given enough head room. If planted out and otherwise 

 treated according to its requirements, it will make growths 70 feet in 

 length. It is closely related to the Bignonias. Flowers are bright yel- 

 low, being borne in large racemes. It blooms in midwinter. Propagated 

 by cuttings of the ripe wood in late Summer. 



AKEBIA QUINATA— Although a climbing plant, and a very hand- 

 some one, it is frequently grown to answer the same purpose as bush 

 plants of Jasminum nudiflorum. For this purpose it should be allowed 

 to ramble over low supports. For trellis work it is well adapted. Al- 

 though a common plant we seldom see it in fruit, which is probably 

 accounted for by the fact that the pistillate flowers come into bloom 

 before the staminate ones, thus preventing fertilization; besides, they 

 flower at a period when fertilization out-of-doors is a somewhat preca- 

 rious operation with vines brought from other countries. Its propaga- 

 tion is brought about from cuttings of the current year's growth, choos- 

 ing wood not too thick nor yet the weakest branches. Make the cut- 

 tings with two or more leaves on them, and place together in a cool 

 bed; root them in time to be put in a cool frame for the Winter. 



AMPELOPSIS VEITCHII and A. ROYLEI differ Jrom each other 

 only in that the former is the smaller of the two in leaf and fruit. A. 

 Roylei is, perhaps, the more rapid grower of the two. They are both 

 ideal vines for covering walls, not only for ornamental appearance, but 

 what is of more importance, in warding off the rain from the walls. It 

 may be noticed that the foliage is imbricated; that is, the lowest leaves, 

 the blades of which hang almost perpendicularly, are covered for nearly 

 half of their length from the base by the ends of the leaves above; thus 

 the water drips from one to the other instead of being absorbed by the 

 substance against which the vine grows. Another good reason why it 

 should be planted much more freely is, that it keeps the sun from the 

 walls, making quite an appreciable difference in the temperature of the 

 interior of the dwelling. The fruit may be gathered about the begin- 

 ning of November, the seeds washed clear of the pulp, and sown in a 

 frame having a southern exposure. Do not sow thickly as the cotyle- 

 dons are large, and damping off may result before the seedhngs are 

 transplanted. By the middle of May the seedlings are ready for han- 

 dhng. They may either be put in small pots, singly, or three in a 3-inch 

 pot, plunged in ashes in a frame, the sash put on and shaded for a few 

 days until the young plants have taken with the soil. The Ampelopsis, 

 owing to the nature of the roots, are best transplanted out of pots. A. 

 Engelmanni, A. diversifolia and A. acouitifolia, all good kinds in their 



