VINES 81 



Avliicli soon covers ai-<?li, trellis, or support of 

 whatever nature it may be. 



SOIL FOR VINES 



While it has been suggested that the common 

 perennial and annual vines are not exacting as 

 to the conditions demanded for their health, 

 still it is a fact that their requirements and 

 culture are too often given but small consider- 

 ation by the planter. They are frequently set 

 out when preparation has been meager, estab- 

 lished in poor soil sometimes made up largely 

 of rubbish or of earth from which all the food 

 has been extracted by other plants. Still, even 

 under such conditions, vines struggle into leaf 

 and occasionally into flower, but it should be 

 remembered that it is futile to expect a free 

 and luxuriant growth — which is a vine's chief 

 charm — -where the plants are neglected, or per- 

 haps actually abused. It is common to observe 

 a plant obtained from a florist or nurseryman 

 turned out from a pot into a hole barely large 

 enough to receive the ball of earth and dug in 

 ground which has not been prepared by culti- 

 vation of any sort for the reception of the 

 roots. Naturally such treatment will not lend 

 encouragement to the best and healthiest 



