powering odor and its handsome foliage, are the very 

 characters which raised it to such importance in song and 

 folk-lore. All Grapevines are desirable. Is the position ad- 

 vantageous enough to permit the setting out of fruit-bearing 

 varieties, so much the better. These vines should train high 

 around the windows of the upper story. The Wild Grapevine, 

 Vitis riparia, is so sweet in odor that it deserves a spot where 

 cultivated kinds will not thrive. Their relations, the Vir- 

 ginia Creeper, Ampelopsis quinquefolia, and the Boston Ivy, 

 A. Veitchii, should be in every kindergarten. Both are 

 handsome in foliage, both are glorious in the rich tints of 

 autumn. And while the former has a depth of color which 

 the latter does not display, the original way in which it 

 attaches itself to the walls against which it is trained makes 

 it an object which cannot be neglected. Our gardens are apt 

 to face some building at one side or other. Against such this 

 Boston Ivy should be planted to take care of itself. The 

 higher area should be reserved for it exclusively, whereas in 

 the lower, the climbing Ficus repens should find the spot 

 which it will cover. It will succeed only in warmer climates, 

 but there it forms a charming object because of its charac- 

 teristic foliage, the mode in which this spreads out, and the 

 unusual green which it shows, planted either in shade or in 

 sunny exposure. 



Is it necessary to speak at length about the merits of 

 the Clematis, and is it possible to give either variety the 

 preference, large or small flowering kinds ? All of them 

 are grand for our purpose ; all of them appeal to the 

 child and its fancies. The large flowering kinds have 



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