MOCK CYPRESS 



The Mock Cypress is a little chenopod growing usually about 

 two feet high and curiously resembling a small, closely sheared 

 evergreen; the foliage being a pale bright-green until September, 

 when the entire plant — stem, leaves, fruit — becomes a mass of 

 deep crimson. The minute flowers are borne in the axils of the 

 leaves and are followed by small, angular akenes. The plant is 

 largely used for dwarf hedges or to emphasize a garden path; it 

 passes with the summer but makes its exit in a blaze of glory. 

 The name Mexican Fire Plant, which was first given it, is a mis- 

 nomer, as the plant is not Mexican nor even American, but is 

 native to southern Europe and western Asia. 



The Madeira Vine, Boussingatiltia baselloldes, is a rapid-growing 

 vine prized for porches and arbors. The roots are stored in the 

 winter and planted out after danger from frost is past. The stem 

 will often reach twenty feet in a season, and in late summer bears 

 numerous racemes of small white flowers of delicious fragrance. 

 It is a plant of easy culture, native to Ecuador, 



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