VINES AND SHRUBS 



These flat disks adhere to smooth or rough surfaces, and pull 

 the plant over trunks of trees, stone walls, etc. 



In October small, dark berries appear. Sometimes it is 

 mistaken for poison ivy, which has 3 instead of 5 leaflets. 

 This is not only harmless, but is often transplanted into our 

 gardens, where it mingles with other vines, covering gate- 

 posts and old stumps. It is adapted to every variety of soil. 

 I have been surprised to find it on the very tops of the sand- 

 dunes, where it must catch the salt spray, and nothing else 

 but coarse grass can grow. And in the autumn it paints 

 whatever it covers with glorious masses of scarlet. 



Ampelopsis 



Cissus Ampelopsis. — Family, Vine. Color, greenish. Sepals and 

 petals, 4 or 5. Flowers, small, in a loose, slender panicle. Fruit, 

 a berry the size of a pea, not edible, blue or greenish, 1 to 3- 

 seeded. Leaves, heart-shape or square at base, pointed at apex, 

 coarsely toothed, occasionally lobed, downy along the veins un- 

 derneath. June. 



A climbing, woody vine, along river-banks, from Virginia 

 to Nebraska and south to Florida. 



Northern Fox Grape 



Vttis lahrusca.. — Family, Vine. Color, greenish. Leaves, sim- 

 ple, large, rounded or deeply lobed, distantly toothed, covered 

 underneath with rusty wool. Opposite every leaf is a forked 

 tendril, by means of which the plant climbs. Bark, loose, 

 stripping off. Flowers, some perfect, others lacking pistils. Calyx, 

 short, obscurely 5 -toothed. Corolla, of 4 to 5 petals. Alternating 

 with the 5 stamens are 5 nectar-bearing glands. Pistil, with or 

 without style, and a 2-divided stigma. Fruit, a 2-celled, 4-seeded 

 berry of a dark-purple color, with thick skin and tough pulp, f 

 inch in diameter. June. 



Sometimes this vine reaches 100 feet in length. It is 

 strong, aggressive, and makes a thicket of its many branches 

 wherever it grows. Its main stem may have a diameter of 

 6 to 10 inches. It is the origin of many of our cultivated 

 grapes — Concord, Isabella, Catawba, etc. 



The word grape means bunch, or cluster, from the old 

 French grappe. 



Fruit ripe in September or October. Moist or dry thickets, 

 the length of the Atlantic coast, westward to the Alleghany 

 Mountains. 



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