76 VINES 
times to keep it properly trained on any object. 
Provide a good, sunny location and light yet well- 
enriched soil, and this vine will grow to a height 
of fifteen feet, forming perfectly fairy-like festoons 
of flowers and foliage. 
Another climber, valuable alike for both leaf 
and flower, is the cup-and-saucer vine (Cobza 
scandens). The foliage is green, but the stems 
and the veins of the leaf are tinted with purple 
running into a peculiar bronze hue, so pronounced 
that, at a short distance, the entire plant has a 
decidedly bronze appearance. The growth is loose, 
very irregular and uncertain in its direction, 
thereby adding still more beauty to the plant. 
It is an excellent boundary fence vine. The 
flowers greatly resemble in form those of the cup- 
and-saucer Canterbury bell (Campanula Medium 
var. calycanthema) and are of about the same 
size; hence, the common name. - Their colour is 
greenish purple, and although not produced in 
overwhelming quantities, they are sufficient to 
justify the use of the vine as a flowering plant. 
It is, therefore, well adapted to porches and city 
gardens. 
The cup-and-saucer vine is a good grower, 
reaching a height of twenty feet, clinging very 
close to its support by means of the tendrils with 
