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broad bands of white, terra cotta, steel grey; single 

 and double blooms, all are found in this wonderful 

 flower of the Orient. Good soil, cultivation and water, 

 water, water, are the conditions that will produce the 

 wonderfully large flowers that are known in Japan. 

 I have raised Japanese morning glories that Japanese 

 friends told me were larger than they grew, but I 

 found it was water, and always water that did it. 



Another most interesting annual vine is the momor- 

 dica. This has especially beautiful foliage of the 

 grape style, and long golden-yellow fruit that opens 

 when ripe, showing an interior full of scarlet seeds. 

 Other members of the gourd family are quite worth 

 cultivating; one of the most effective vines I ever 

 grew was the orange shaped gourd. This has large, 

 coarse foliage, but is exceedingly effective in a mural 

 sort 'of way, and when grown across the front of a 

 porch or pergola is wonderfully decorative. 



No vine is so artistically beautiful as the Chinese 

 wistaria when covered with its long pendent sprays 

 of white or of lavender flowers. Unfortunately it is 

 often a shy bloomer, requiring several years to come 

 into flower; sometimes it never blooms. I have one 

 myself that must be between flfteen and twenty yeairs 

 old and has defeated all efforts to make it bloom, 

 though it grows rankly with a stem as thick as my 

 wrist. Seedling plants are said to bloom seldom, so 

 in purchasing vines of this particular sort one should 



