CHAPTER X 
SPRING-FLOWERING Harpy VINES 
The unrivalled wistaria — Earliest spring flowers — Forsythia as a vine — 
The easily-grown akebia — Clematis species you should know. 
SINCE in this connection it is necessary to 
place a definite, although arbitrary, limitation 
on the seasons, I make June the dividing date, 
and will therefore call vines that flower, or begin 
to flower before June 1, ‘“‘spring-flowering.” But 
we will consider only those early-flowering species 
that are valuable because of their flower-effects. 
Other vines, such as Dutchman’s Pipe, which, 
although they blossom thus early, are more 
esteemed for their foliage, are discussed in another 
chapter. In other words, we will now confine 
ourselves to vines that bear conspicuous, effec- 
tive flowers before June I. 
On such plants the blooms are, as arule, pro- 
duced from buds formed the previous season; but 
a few vines make in the spring a new, short growth 
which terminates in a flower spike. All those 
that flower from the previous season’s buds lend 
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