CHAPTER VIII 



CONCERNING VINES 



TO the beauty of the garden and the home 

 grounds, vines are as necessary as the lawn, 

 the shrubs, and the trees. Occasionally they 

 enter into the garden proper, and again they grace the 

 entrance of one that is enclosed. The uses of vines 

 are many, for they are the beneficent plants of 

 nature, willing to cover up unsightly things, often of 

 rude necessity. Under the hand of man they become 

 adaptable screens, besides often giving agreeable 

 shade and a generous outpouring of bloom. 



As soon as the bolder growth — the trees and 

 the shrubs — of a country place has been located, 

 and assuredly before the garden is planned or planted, 

 the vines should come under consideration. Fences, 

 arches, trellises, the veranda, and the now fashionable 

 pergola would be poor indeed were it not for the vines 

 that cover their outlines and bring them into harmony 

 with the surrounding plant life. So beautiful and 

 so varied are the vines known to be hardy near the 

 sea that individual taste can be consulted when those 

 for planting are chosen. 



It is, of course, the hardy perennial vines that are 

 the all-desired, since by their permanence and their 

 freedom in growing old and stately, they have attained 



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