200 VINES 
air, and still ascending. The profusion of sn.all, 
blue-black berries adds to its attractiveness in 
the fall. 
By reason of its suitability for use on frame 
buildings, to which it clings, with long, straggling 
shoots hanging down in great festoons, the Vir- 
ginia creeper (Ampelopsis quinquefolia) is a 
valuable foliage plant. It is also a good plant 
in the fall, as the berries, always freely produced, 
are very attractive. Although this plant will 
cling to frame structures, it holds better if a 
little poultry wire is stretched over the object to 
be covered, in which case the disc-bearing tendril 
clings to the support. If this help be given, the 
vine can also be used on stone or brick buildings. 
Although a grand summer vine, with its dark- 
green foliage, it does not colour up as well in 
the fall as the Boston ivy, although the foliage 
does turn a beautiful shade of red. 
There are numerous good varieties of this vine, 
differing more or less in minor points. 4. quin- 
quefolia var.. radicantissima is of closer-growing 
habit than the type. It is the loose, straggling 
growth of the Virginia creeper which to most 
persons is so pleasing, and yet some may like 
this other variety. A good variety for planting 
beside a green-leaved vine, where the glaucous 
