USES AND HABITS OF VINES 5 
replace it with fresh loam, and plant a few vines. 
The vines produce a very pretty and interesting 
effect growing in this manner. 
If you have lights of any description on your 
place do not have the bare posts, but plant a 
few vines at the base ofeach. Great improve- 
ment will result. Similarly, the unsightly poultry- 
wire back-stops of the tennis courts can be 
wonderfully improved by a vine or two planted 
against them. 
A very odd and pretty effect may be had by 
planting a vine alongside of a shrub. Ina short 
time the vine will entirely envelop the shrub and 
the effect be very pleasing. 
HABITS 
Several different methods are employed by 
vines in their ambition to climb: by special organs, 
by twining the stem around any object within 
reach, and by means of long, straggling shoots 
which will clamber over stones and such objects 
without much difficulty. 
Those that climb by special organs may be 
separated into four divisions—according to the 
different types of organs specially devised for 
this purpose — i. ¢. rootlets, tendrils, petioles or 
leafstalks, and leaves. Of course, there is not 
