66 DECORATIVE PLANTS, TREES AND SHRUBS 



old form " Ccerulea," with its bluish flower, is the commoner, but 

 the white form " Constance Elliot " is the prettier. Cuttings. 



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" Coignetiae," " Purpurea " and " Thunbergi " are the best of 

 these vines, their beauty being entirely in their large handsome foli- 

 age, and more particularly in their autumn colouration. They need 

 plenty of space in which to develop their full effects. In like manner 

 the Virginian creeper (Ampelopsis) have the same merits except that 

 the foliage is much smaller in such varieties as " Veitchi," " Henryi " 

 and " Lowi." These are all self-clinging, which is a great recom- 

 mendation, and they . have thereby established themselves in 

 preference to the lobe-leaved A. hederacea. Cuttings. 



Fio. 24. Ampelopsis towii 



