This pergola is attractive every day of the growing season because of its well-selected vines, perennials, and shade-loving trees 



Flowers on and Under a Pergola— By Wm. p. Longknd, 



THE VINES THAT PROVIDE A SUCCESSION OF BLOOM FOR EIGHT MONTHS, AND 

 THE FLOWERS THAT THRIVE BEST ON THE SUNNY AND SHADY SIDES BELOW 



Wis- 



THE pergola shown above is a rustic one 

 at the summer home of Mr. Charles 

 Hutchinson, Lake Geneva, Wis. Because 

 it leads from the house directly to the woods 

 it was made in the rustic manner. Every 

 pillar has a different vine, and the varieties 

 are so selected as to have something in bloom 

 upon the pergola practically every day 

 throughout the season. 



The succession idea is much better for a 

 home pergola than the display idea. If you 

 have the whole pergola covered with one 

 kind of vine, the effect will be too showy for 

 a brief period, and exceedingly monotonous 

 for the rest of the season. On our per- 

 gola we have growing all the vines named 

 below. 



I say nothing about the cultivation of these, 

 as the methods are simple, and may be had 

 from any good catalogue, or from various 

 numbers of The Garden Magazine. 



The vine which blooms longer than any 

 other is the trumpet creeper (Tecoma radi- 



SpiKenard 

 An ingenious 

 architecture to 



(Aralia racemosa) 

 way of softenin; 

 wild nature 



growing in & stump. 

 ! the transition from 



cans, also known as Bignonia radicans). It 

 commences flowering in June and continues 

 to produce an abundance of orange and 

 scarlet blossoms through August. It has 

 the happy faculty of climbing by means of 

 aerial roots so it is unnecessary to be con- 

 tinually tying it in place. 



Akebia (A. quinata). A very graceful 

 vine climbing ten or twelve feet high. The 

 chocolate colored flowers are borne the latter 

 part of May. It must be grown in a sunny 

 place. So it is with the beautiful white 

 clematis (C Henryi) ; its conspicuous flowers 

 averaging six inches across are seen from 

 June to September. Its rich purple and 

 better known companion is Clematis Jack- 

 mani, very similar in habit and blooms 

 during June and July. There are two small 

 white-flowered clematises which always give 

 me pleasure. They are the Virgin 's-bower 

 (C. Virginiana) and the Japanese Virgin's 

 bower (C. panicidata) . The former blooms 

 during July and August, the latter in August 

 and September. The flowers are replaced 

 by seeds which have long fuzzy appendages, 

 which give the plant a woolly appearance 

 for a month. 



FOLIAGE VINES FOB. THE SHADED SIDE 



In a position which is shaded from the sun 

 nearly all day I have a plant of the frost grape 

 (Vitis vulpina, also known as V. riparia), a 

 vigorous, tall growing vine with bright green 

 leaves. In June the sweet-scented flowers 

 fill the atmosphere with a delicious fragrance. 

 The cultivated grape vines are also desirable 

 plants for the pergola — I have a plant of 

 Concord — but they need the sun. 



The fastest growing vine I have is the 

 Kudzu vine (Pueraria Thunbergiana). It 

 kills back nearly to the ground each winter 

 but the roots are hardy. It does equally 

 well in sun or shade. 



The Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quin- 

 quejolia) will grow in either sun or shade. 

 The flowers are inconspicuous but are fol- 

 io 



lowed in August by large clusters of purple 

 fruit. Ampelopsis quinquefolia, var. Engel- 

 manni is very similar to the type but the 

 leaves are smaller. The fruits ripen in 

 August and are purple or black. This 

 variety has the faculty of hanging to anything 

 it touches by means of little sucker-tipped 

 tendrils. In the fall the foliage is much more 

 highly colored than it is in the type. 



A relative of these two which always gives 

 satisfaction is the Japanese or Boston ivy 

 {Ampelopsis tricuspidata, known to the trade 

 as A. Veitchii). This, like the previous 

 plant, will stick to almost anything, so that 

 it is unnecessary to be continually tying it into 

 place. It has glossy, dark green foliage all 

 summer long, which turns to bright orange 

 and scarlet in the fall. 



Here it is necessary to grow it in the shade 

 or else it will winterkill. 



The only variegated vine I have is the 

 variegated grape (Ampelopsis heterophylla, 

 var. elegans, also known as Vitis variegata). 



The best lily is the gold-banded one (Lilium 

 auraium). It succeeds admirably tor three years when 

 grown among peonies, then needs replanting 



