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NEGLECTED BEAUTIES. 
Ipomeea, or Morning Glory, is perhaps the best known of twining plants, and is entirely worthy of 
its great popularity. Its habit of growth is very peculiar: At first it sends forth two curiously-shaped 
seed-leaves, quite different from the aftergrowth. Between these two leaves springs a shoot with a small, 
heart-shaped leaf, which grows toa relatively large size; for when first noticed it is like a pin’s head, and in 
a few days it reaches a diameter of three or four inches. The shoot mounts higher, throwing these broad 
leaves to either side, and twines around any projection that offers, as if gifted with intelligence. In time 
a trumpet-shaped flower appears at the axil, opening most generally in early morning, whence its 
common name; and, perishing before night, is not infrequently replaced by other flowers, sometimes to 
the number of eight or ten, continuously, on the same axil. 
Quamoelit vulgaris, or Cypress Vine, is already described, page 171. 
Calystegia sepium, or Bracted Bindweed of the Hedges, is a twining plant often found by the road- 
sides of our country, east and south of the Mississippi, and is a very fine plant, well adapted to house 
culture. A double variety of it is much used by the florists for hanging-baskets and for training into 
window-frames in or out of doors. The roots being perennial, it can be kept from year to year undis- 
turbed in the same place, to yield its annual wealth of leaves and flowers as a cheap embellishment to our 
homes. The ease with which it may be secured, as well as cultivated, should not be allowed to depreciate 
its value in the estimation of lovers of flowers. Should the vine at any time become unsightly, the whole 
may be pruned down to the ground, when it will make a new, healthy start, if in a warm atmosphere and 
duly refreshed alternately with liquid manure and water. 
Boussingaultia baselloides, or Madeira Vine. This is another cheap and easily procurable twiner, 
requiring but little care in the development of its beauties. It will grow thirty feet long, and spread 
laterally as much more, in one season, under favorable circumstances. As the plants grow larger they 
need more root-room, and therefore require not infrequently to be transferred to larger pots several times 
in a season. It will do no harm to begin with a larger pot than they need, provided that the soil is not too 
much watered. 
Mikania scandens, or Parlor Ivy (perhaps more familiarly known as German Ivy), is a rapid-growing 
substitute for the slower and more valuable English Ivy, this rapidity of leafing constituting. its principal 
recommendation. 
Lonicera, or Honeysuckle, of which there are several highly-prized species in cultivation, is a well 
and favorably known genus of twining plants. The most popular species is perhaps the L. sempervirens 
or Trumpet Honeysuckle. It flowers all the season out of doors, and makes a good parlor plant when 
rightly cared for, blooming all the year round in skillful hands, whence it is called sempervirens, always 
green or flourishing. It is unnecessary to describe or even to name the different species or varieties 
of the Honeysuckle; they are all pretty and desirable twiners, easily procured and as easily cultivated, and 
most of them are very hardy. 
Celastrus scandens, or Climbing Bittersweet, is a native twiner with beautiful, glossy leaves, and 
waxy, red berries which hang on the plant until late in the fall, and often through the winter. 
Aristolochia sipho, or Dutchman’s Pipe, is already described on page 35. 
Lathyrus odoratus, or Sweet Pea, is another old favorite because of its abundant butterfly-shaped 
flowers, and the sweet fragrance (whence its specific name), which may be replaced but not surpassed by 
new claimants for popular esteem. The different varieties have differently-colored flowers, and from a 
single seed-packet one may sometimes have half a dozen variations in color. 
Maurandia, in three choice varieties, mostly with a pale-purple or bluish flower, is an acceptable, 
low-growing twiner, adapted to hanging-baskets and window-screens. 
Thunbergia, also in three varieties, somewhat resembles the Morning Glory, but the tube of the 
corolla is closer, and the flower is more flattened on the top, resembling a miniature table. The color is 
orange, yellow or white, with a black eye in the center of each flower. They are very subject to Red 
Spider, and therefore not desirable for house plants. 
Menispermum Canadense, or Canadian Moonseed, is among the favorite twiners, but is not so gene- 
rally known among amateur culturists as it deserves to be. The small, yellow flowers grow in drupes in 
the axils, and the fruit, which is a small, dark berry, grows in a thyrsus, resembling a bunch of grapes. 
Another species, the M. palmatum, is much grown in Mozambique and other parts of the east for its 
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