A T'housand-Mik Walk 



vines. In some districts almost every tree is 

 crowned with them, aiding each other in grace 

 and beauty. Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennes- 

 see have the grapevine in predominant num- 

 bers and development. Farther south dwell the 

 greenbriers and countless leguminous vines. 

 A vine common among the Florida islets, per- 

 haps belonging to the dogbane family, over- 

 runs live-oaks and palmettos, with frequently 

 more than a hundred stems twisted into one 

 cable. Yet in no section of the South are there 

 such complicated and such gorgeously flowered 

 vine-tangles as flourish in armed safety in the 

 hot and humid wild gardens of Cuba. 



The longest and the shortest vine that I 

 found in Cuba were both leguminous. I have 

 said that the harbor side of the Morro Hill is 

 clothed with tall yellow-flowered composites 

 through which it is difficult to pass. But there 

 are smooth, velvety, lawnlike patches in these 

 Compositce forests. Coming suddenly upon one 

 of these open places, I stopped to admire its 

 greenness and smoothness, when I observed a 

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