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Isaac Hicks & Son, Westbury Station, N. Y. Vines 



Vines 



We are too apt to think of Vines as primarily useful for shading porches. Mosquitoes often veto this 

 use, for they like to linger where the foliage checks the rapid movement of the breeze. Awnings are more 

 expensive, but more controllable porch screens. Vines which harbor mosquitoes are those which have been 

 neglected and grow in a dense mass. 



Porch vines should be pruned every year like the Grape, by cutting out all but a few branches. This 

 will result in a thin layer of foliage which intercepts the view but allows the breeze to pass. 



Vines are used much less than they might be, simply because people have not seen them or have for- 

 gotten or do not use their imagination. Many a landscape or building which is commonplace and ugly, 

 may be transformed by the embellishment of a few vines. They decorate without occupying valuable 

 space and without serious danger of over-growing their position because they can be readily pruned and 

 not injure their beauty or flowering. 



There is a beautiful driveway on the Pratt estate at Glen Cove, lined by stately Locusts. Without 

 detracting from their dignity, each trunk is decorated by climbing roses or other vines. The Locust is 

 especially favorable to this partnership for it does not utilize all the light and fertility. Locusts are a fre- 

 quent part of the landscape on the northern half of Long Island and many object to them because of their 

 narrow growth and sparse foliage, but they can be made beautiful all the year with Euonymus radicans for 

 winter, Wistaria for early spring, Climbing Roses for June; Clematis, Honeysuckle and Trumpet Creeper 

 for midsummer; Virginia Creeper, Bittersweet and Japanese Ivy for autumn. Steep banks may be covered 

 and held by vines more effectively and cheaply than by grass. Groups of shrubs may often be edged with 

 vines, or vines allowed to clamber upon them, softening their lines and making the whole a more luxuriant 

 and harmonious group. The laundry paddock and tennis court may be screened by vines on a wire trell' 



Actinidia 



Actinidia is a rare Japanese vine, as vigorous and 

 healthy as the Wistaria. It has large white flowers 

 like orange blossoms and bears fruit that is edible. 

 We recommend it as a porch vine, for pergolas, 

 fences or climbing up trees. 



The showy red flowers of the Trumpet Creeper will add 

 interest to a period in midsummer when flowers are scarce 

 outside the garden. 



Akebia 



Akebia quinata. A vigorous vine with dark green 

 foliage which is retained till midwinter. It will 

 grow to a great height. The fruit is lead-colored, 

 and opens showing a roll of translucent, sweet, 

 edible jelly. The fragrant purple flowers are 

 small and of rubber-like texture. 



Bittersweet Celastrus articulata 



A vine which decorates fences, rocks and trees 

 throughout autumn and all the winter with bril- 

 liant orange berries. We offer it at low rates, so 

 that it can be planted in quantity and naturalized 

 along banks, woodland borders and where it can 

 climb up trees. It will do especially well on Locust 

 trees. 



Clematis 



Clematis paniculata. This and the Japanese Ivy 

 have come more rapidly into favor than any 

 other vines. It is a snow-drift of white stars in 

 August. It grows very rapidly and will quickly 

 cover porches, pergolas and wire fences around 

 tennis courts. If this variety is planted among 

 shrubbery and small trees, it will embower them 

 with flowers. 



C. Virginiana. A species native to our swamps 

 and roadsides, corresponding to the Clematis 

 paniculata. It blooms a little earlier and does 

 not grow quite so large. 



C. Jackmani. This has large, purple flowers, 

 about 6 inches in diameter, and is suitable for 

 growing on the pillars in the flower-garden, but 

 is not always large enough for a porch vine. For 

 some reason (said to be nematode worms in the 

 soil), it is difficult to grow, but well worthy of 

 repeated trials by those who admire its chaste 

 beauty. It is not as often seen on Long Island 

 as in some other sections and possibly the soil 

 or climate does not suit it. The two species 

 above have no weak points, 



C. Henryi. A pure white species like the above. 



