1S4 A LITTLE GARDEN THE YEAR ROUND 



winds and winter's snows) by straw and mat- 

 ting protections. For instance, the winter sun 

 is too bright for the English Ivy in its dormant 

 season, wherefore one often sees whole house- 

 sides that in summer were green with the 

 Ivy's beauty, yielding, in winter time, to the 

 necessity of an ugly covering of flat mats. 

 Nevertheless we do not plant half enough of 

 this vine, and there are always many nooks and 

 corners of walls and spots that are fairly well 

 sheltered where it will thrive admirably. Apro- 

 pos of vines and the seasons, the Silk Vine 

 {Periploca Grceca) retains its foliage very late 

 into the fall, and is an excellent vine for arbor, 

 stump, trellis or tree-trunk. 



It must not be forgotten that vines need 

 cultivation in common with other plants. It 

 wUl not do merely to let them struggle along 

 the best they can. The soil around them must 

 be worked carefuUy, fertilized, and protected 

 by mulches to retain moisture in summer and 

 to protect the vines from frost in winter. 

 Then, too, it wUl be found that some of them 

 are of very slow growth, like the Wistarias, 

 while others, like the Kudzu Vine, reach out 

 with amazing rapidity. Every year the seeds- 



