board wall, and is especially valuable in cities as neither 

 dust nor soot adheres to its glossy leaves. Its brother, 

 the Virginia creeper, likes trees or trellises better and 

 does excellently in the shade, as does the pipe vine or 

 Dutchman's pipe, whose 

 large green leaves and 

 curious flowers are not 

 seen as often as they 

 should be. Honeysuckles 

 and wistarias will grow 

 almost anywhere and per- 

 fume the air and delight 

 the eye with their blos- 

 soms. The trumpet vine 

 is excellent for many 

 reasons and has always 

 been of especial interest 

 to me because it will at- 

 tract the humming birds 

 more than any other 

 plant I know. Wild and 

 cultivated grape are good 

 for arbors and to cover 

 up bare or unsightly 

 places. The Kudzu vine 

 will climb fifty feet in one 

 season, but is rather 

 coarse for small places. 

 Among the roses we have 

 the rambler in its varie- 

 ties and the prairie roses 

 as climbers, and the va- 

 rious memorial roses as 

 creepers. Clematises from 

 the native virgins bower 

 and Japanese paniculata, 

 which are both good as 

 late bloomers, to the large 

 flowering ones of the jack- 

 man type, must not be overlooked; and akebia, bitter- 

 sweet, euonymous and several polygonums, are others 

 that are desirable. One word of caution regarding 

 climbers may not be out of place: do not expect too 

 much the first year after planting, as most of them 



The trumpet vine climbing 

 up an old stump 



