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covered with bloom, and then they would take the sulks 

 about something I never could find out and die. Yet, 

 where they do succeed, they are all that you can ask for. 



Graveolens. This is a vigorous, hardy vine. It will 

 often spring up from seed and groAv on its own account. 

 It is a late bloomer, and has beautiful golden flowers 

 and these are followed by great masses of feathery and 

 fluffy clumps to which the seeds are attached. These 

 last are about as interesting as the flowers themselves. 



The Duchess of Edinburgh has great masses of double 

 white flov/ers. 



Madame Edward Andre has large flowers of beauti- 

 ful bright velvety red. It is said to be a prolific and 

 continuous bloomer. 



Trwnpet Floiver Radicans. This is a vigorous 

 climbing plant, generally hardy. It will kill back 

 sometimes, however, but the root is of such vigor it 

 will push up again. It bears trumpet-shaped red flow- 

 ers in August. 



Wistarias. The American purple is a very hardy 

 vine ; in fact the hardiest of all. It is not quite as free 

 flowering as some of the foreign sorts. There is a white 

 variety of this vine. 



The whole family was named from Wistar, once a 

 professor in the Pennsylvania University. 



The Sinensis is from China. It was introduced in 

 1818. It has long pendulous clusters of pale blue flow- 

 ers. There is a white variety of this same species. 



There are Japanese wistarias, also very beautiful, 

 but not having tested them I cannot vouch for their 

 hardiness. 



