The American Flower Garden 



inches apart, in a hotbed. After a good beginning the young 

 vines may be given a permanent place in the garden, with a wire 

 netting or pea brush to climb up. Or well-started vines can be 

 bought from a nursery. They may attain a height of ten feet in 

 rich, moist soil, and if mulched and well watered during hot weather 

 they will be covered with exquisite flowers like so many little butter- 

 flies fluttering over them. Although hardy, the roots need some 

 protection in winter. Planted in groups at the back of perennials 

 in the hardy border, the peas look more sightly scrambling over 

 brush, which they presently conceal, than over wire. 



On the shady side of a house, in cool, rich soil, anyone who 

 knows it will wish to grow the Alleghany vine, fumitory, or moun- 

 tain fringe (Adlumia), as it is variously called, if not for the sake 

 of the arching sprays of its delicate little pink flowers, like miniature 

 bleeding hearts that have bled themselves almost white, then for 

 its exquisite foliage, as finely cut as maiden-hair fern. It is a bien- 

 nial, but when once established it sows itself, stooling the first 

 summer and the next year climbing swiftly up string or trellis, 

 which it festoons with lacy foliage of the tenderest green. But it 

 is in the rock garden, perhaps, that the fumitory appears at its best. 

 Planted in rich crevices in shaded places it drapes the stern boulders 

 with delightfully contrasted delicacy and grace. Of all the vines, 

 surely this is the daintiest. 



SHRUBBY AND HERBACEOUS VINES 



The best of the annual vines, including Nasturtium, Sweet Pea, Coboea, Hyacinth 

 Bean, Morning Glory, Moon Flower, Balloon Vine, Cypress Vine, raised from seed each 

 year, are described in the list of annualc. (See page 246.) 



AKEBIA (Akelia quinata). Best deciduous shrubby vine where dense 

 shade is not wanted. Five-partite leaves, rich deep green, with 

 clusters of brownish purple flowers in May, June. Quite hardy and 

 free from insects and fungi. Prefers well-drained, peaty soil. 



