64 MAKING OF A FLOWER GARDEN 



the seeds on edge and covering a fourth of an inch 

 with mellow soil. These are most desirable, both as 

 climbers and as a source of cut flowers, for the plants 

 commence blooming early and bloom every step of 

 the way, from the ground up to the topmost branch, 

 which is often an incredible distance from the ground. 

 I have had them flaunt their pale green, lavender, 

 mauve and wine-colored bloom from the tipmost 

 branch of a tall pear tree, or from the top of a wind- 

 mill tower. 



The daiaty little manetta vine is easily grown from 

 seed, as is also its sturdier neighbor, the thunbergia, 

 with its disc-shaped flowers of white with black eye, 

 yellow with black eye and pure yeUow. Kennilworth 

 ivy grows readily from seed and self-sown plants* of 

 this and mazietta vine are often found the following 

 year under the boxes where they bloomed and seeded 

 the year before. The ivy loves to creep into the crev- 

 ices of the stone or brick foundations of the house, 

 even creeping through the windows and growing luxu- 

 riantly in the earth inside. Under one window in an 

 earth fruit cellar the soil was green all winter with 

 this delicate vine, which looked far too delicate to 

 withstand the cold of its curiously choseq home. 



