XIX 



VINES 



WHEN you come to plant your gar- 

 den, make your lawn, set out your 

 trees and shrubs, and have finished 

 building your garden walls, fences and trel- 

 lises, there will be the vines to take into consid- 

 eration. 



Perhaps no branch of garden adornment is 

 more carelessly attended to by the amateur 

 than that of selecting the proper vines for the 

 premises. It is always so easy to fall back on 

 Virginia Creeper, or to feel that with a little 

 spatter of Wistaria the whole field has been 

 covered. Nevertheless, looking into vine-lore 

 at planting-time is well worth while. 



There are, generally speaking, two sorts 

 of vines: those which are hardy and shrub- 

 topped, and those which die down in winter 

 to spring up again the next season, or which 



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