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Bignonia venusta is a very desirable hardy resident of 

 the garden, and makes a flame of orange color on the roof- 

 tops from September to April. Another bignonia-like 

 plant is Pithecoctenium muricatum, with rather woolly 

 flowers in white and pale yellow. Where orange and yel- 

 low are to be avoided there is a rich purple-flowered big- 

 nonia, Bignonia lindleyi, which blooms in panicles when 

 young. The ampelopses have already been referred to, and 

 Ampelopsis veitchii affords much pleasure in the fall, with its 

 delightful red and copper hues, the leaves being very bril- 

 liant just before they fall, even where Jack Frost never 

 appears. Ampelopsis quinquefolia is the well-known Vir- 

 ginia creeper, and also has a fine red foliage in the fall. 

 Ampelopsis tricuspid ata is the Japanese "Boston ivy." It 

 has fine bronze shades in summer, but is entirely deciduous 

 through the winter months. 



The bougainvilleas are becoming so well known that 

 they scarcely need further introduction, yet probably there 

 are no hardy vines in our gardens that are more misused. 

 In the first place, they must be very carefully considered in 

 the color-scheme of the whole. A misplaced Bougainvillea 

 speclabilis, or Bougainvillea glabra, can absolutely over- 

 shadow every other bloom in the garden, and make one sigh 

 for the absence of color. The red variety, Bougainvillea 

 lateritia, is much more easily placed in relation to other 

 colors, but unfortunately it is not nearly so hardy, and is 

 difficult to procure true to description. 



There are many varieties of bougainvilleas which are 



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