LESSON 51 
CLIMBING VINES 
HIS lesson is designed to introduce the subject of 
climbing vines and their use in landscape garden- 
ing. 
Uses 
Vines are employed in landscape gardening 
- for several different purposes. Doubtless the 
most popular use is upon house porches where vines are grown for 
shade, ornament and to give some privacy. Climbers of other 
kinds, such as Japanese ivy, are used on brick, stone or stucco 
walls, sometimes even upon wooden buildings, mainly for ornament. 
Rightly used they add greatly to the beauty of certain buildings. 
On pergolas, arbors and summer houses vines become an absolute 
necessity. They are effectively grown also on fences, whether of 
wire, wood or stone. They are sometimes used to clamber down 
rough banks. Finally they are used for covering unsightly objects. 
Vines should never be used without a definite purpose. When 
one finds a vine (rose or clematis) planted in the midst of a lawn for 
which a special trellis must be provided merely to support the vine, 
it is then obvious that the vine had no original business there. 
Any purposeless planting of this sort has a highly evil psychological 
effect in gardening as in all other arts. 
List of Varieties 
The following list includes the vines most useful in general 
landscape planting: 
Actinidia: This husky-growing Japanese vine thrives in the 
northeastern states. It is rather too rank for house porches, but 
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