CHAPTER XII 
EVERGREEN VINES 
Unappreciated value of the English ivy — The uses of Euonymus radicans —~ 
Evergreen roses and honeysuckles, 
UNFORTUNATELY, there are for New York, 
and places of similar climate, but few really 
evergreen vines — plants that retain their foliage 
in a green condition all winter. I do not consider 
evergreen a plant that merely retains on its 
branches the dead foliage of the previous season, 
but one on which there is always a certain amount 
of green, growing leaf area. Of course, climate 
is a controlling factor, some of the honey- 
suckles, for example, becoming nearly evergreen 
as the southern regions are approached. But 
these do not satisfy the requirements as I have 
outlined them above. 
There is no better truly evergreen vine than 
the English ivy (Hedera Helix). We do not 
appreciate this half enough. True, it is not the 
easiest thing to grow everywhere, but it can be 
established in hundreds of places where now it 
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