CONCERNING VINES 



without a seat or resting place replete with shade 

 lacks one of its possible pleasures. For the home 

 grounds and garden should not represent merely places 

 of brilliant ornamentation, but should be made livable, 

 cool, and inviting during the warm months of summer. 

 Shade of the right quality is essential to comfort. It 

 should not be too dense, nor should it be too open to 

 the burning rays of the sun. It should be a gentle 

 screen, somewhat like a shadow. 



The suppleness of vines places them in a class by 

 themselves, and gives opportunity for their employ- 

 ment in a way that would be impossible with other 

 kinds of plants. Nature, in her wild ways, uses vines 

 in plenty, spying out with striking accuracy the ugly, 

 barren places that they can so amply beautify. Thou- 

 sands of stems of trees have been held prominently 

 on a landscape by the Virginia creeper, making all 

 forget that it climbed unfalteringly on dead things, 

 long past their usefulness. 



In garden building and in nature's undisciplined 

 domain, ugliness can be eliminated by the persistent 

 clinging of a vine. 



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