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THE GARDEN IMAGAZINE 



December, 1910 



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Growing Vines for Porch and 

 Arbor 



NOTHING adds so much to the beauty of a 

 city or country home as a bower of vines 

 over the porch or summer house. There are 

 several kinds that are perennial, while some of 

 the most beautiful are annuals easily propagated 

 from seed. 



Since rapid growth is very desirable, the soil must 

 be made as rich as possible. Leaf mold, or well- 

 rotted manure, should be worked into the soil to a 

 depth of a foot. If the vines are grown before 

 a window or porch, set where the drip from the 

 eaves will not fall on them. The bed of soil which 

 is prepared for the vines should be walled about 

 with stones or a box-like frame of foot-wide boards. 

 Have a trellis ready for the vines to climb upon as 

 soon as they begin to send out tendrils, and tie 

 strings around them to hold them in place. A net- 

 work of strings, or poultry netting, supported by 

 upright stakes, will make fair supports for the 

 annual climbers. If used to screen a window from 

 the rays of the noonday sun, it is best to make a 

 trellis of upright supports for the vines about two 

 feet in front of the window, and reaching almost as 

 high. From the top of this trellis to the top of the 

 window use strings or wire to form a roof over which 

 to train the vines. If wistaria and trumpet-flower 

 vine come in contact with wooden walls or roof 

 the tendrils will grow under the shingles and the 

 vines will shade the woodwork, keep it damp, 

 and cause it to rot. Such vines should be pruned 

 to curtail the growth and supported on a trellis at 

 a distance of several feet from the house. 



Among the hardy vines which come from tubers 

 are the cinnamon vine, with beautiful foliage and 

 little white flowers having a delicious odor of cinna- 

 mon, and the well-known madeira vine, one of the 

 most rapid growers. Dig the tubers in the fall, 

 protect from frost during the winter . and plant 

 out early in the spring. Wistaria and trumpet 

 vine are old-time favorites that require no atten- 

 tion except the first setting of the plant, after which 

 they make a vigorous growth of woody vine and 

 dense foliage as well as bright flowers. 



Of the annual climbers we like best the Ipomsea 

 family, including the morning-glory, moonflower, 

 and cypress. These vines are easily grown from 

 seed sown in a hotbed or in a box, and the seed- 

 lings transplanted outdoors after danger of frost 

 is past. Have the soil a rich leafmold, and if you 

 would be sure of success with the Japanese morning- 

 glory or moonflower, the seed should be soaked over 

 night in warm water, or else filed so as to make a 

 small opening in the hard, horny covering. In 

 transplanting, take up a lump of earth with each 

 plant, set them late in the afternoon, and shade the 

 next day. 



Of the other annual vines one would do well to 

 add to the list the canary bird flower, with its 

 beautiful yellow flowers, and the dolichos and wild 

 cucumber, the latter growing in wild profusion 

 along our larger streams from whence they may be 

 removed and transplanted successfully. 



Missouri. H. F. Grinstead. 



About Yews: A Correction 



IN LAST month's Garden Magazine, pages 172 

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 on page 172 shows the English yew at Brockenhurst 

 Park, Hants, England, while that on the opposite 

 page illustrates the Japanese yew, with Taxus 

 cuspidata, var. brevifolia, in the foreground. 



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