HARDY CLIMBING VINES 
THE CLEMATIS 
The Clematis jackmanni is an excellent vine for 
porches. It has large, violet-purple flowers and blooms 
very freely about midsummer. The vines do not grow 
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Fic. 86. Rambler Rose at the Left ; Clematis at the Right 
Both plants are supported with iron rods 
as luxuriantly as the Virginia creeper or the Boston ivy ; 
they are slender and wiry, requiring some support to 
twine around, like a rod or a wire (see Fig. 86). The 
