CHAPTER V 



VINES 



No plants lend themselves more gracefully 

 to the improvement of the small city yard than 

 vines. With these, most remarkable and sur- 

 prising effects can be attained with little ex- 

 pense and little care. "Wherever they are 

 grown they add beauty to the scene, acting as 

 harmonizing agents, relieving the general ef- 

 fect of any appearance of stiffness or formal- 

 ity. Beautiful and graceful in themselves, 

 they conceal all the unsightly places and ob- 

 jects . and obliterate all the harsh outlines or 

 the straight lines which are nature's abhor- 

 rence. They convert into a thing of beauty a 

 dilapidated fence, turn a stone into a verita- 

 ble mound of foliage, twist and twine them- 

 selves about a dead tree and make of it a pillar 

 of leaf and flower, or, hanging in festoons from 

 porch or window boxes, they produce a picture 



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