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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



July, 19 11 



For a large white-flowered vine blooming in sum- 

 mer plant Clematis Henri 



thin, weak shoots. The best and most 

 popular of the double-flowered is Duchess 

 of Edinburgh. This is a free grower and 

 the double white flowers are produced with 

 great freedom in midsummer; another 

 good double white is Snowdrift. A de- 

 sirable double blue is Countess of Love- 

 lace, and Louis van Houtte is a pleasing 

 shade of rosy white. Among the singles, 

 the best are C. carulea, var. Standishi, 

 light purple; Miss Bateman, pure white; 

 C. florida, white, barred with purple ; and 

 C. florida, var. bicolor, a variety with 

 purple predominating. The great draw- 

 back to all the groups is the likelihood of 

 losing the season's flowers by a heavy 

 late frost. 



OTHER VINES 



For a piazza vine, 

 in abundant sun- 

 light, you cannot 

 find a more attrac- 

 tive plant than the 

 white jasmine (Jas- 

 minum officinale) . It 

 blooms all summer 

 and its fragrance is 

 delightful, especially 

 on a still evening, 

 when its sweetness 

 will penetrate to the 

 innermost rooms of 

 the house. The 

 plant is a twiner, 

 j but must be assist- 

 ed, and if sprayed 

 occasionally during 

 the summer it will 

 grow much better. 

 In a hot, sunny loca- 

 tion it will climb to 

 a height of twenty 

 feet. 



The nurserymen 



have frightened people away from growing 

 the white jasmine, as they fix the latitude 

 of Philadelphia as its northern limit. The 

 plant can be grown in the latitude of New 

 York, by covering the tops with mats and 

 hilling up about the base before frost, 

 mulching all after the first good freeze. 



For a combination of foliage and flowers, 

 and also for making a permanent, heavy 

 screen, the actinidias are excellent. Their 

 small, green foliage is particularly attrac- 

 tive from a distance when the sun is shin- 

 ing on it. The actinidias are remarkably 

 free from the attacks of insects, excepting 

 the San Jose scale which is quite partial 

 to them. 



Actinidias delight in a sunny location. 

 They are good growers, twining close to 

 their support. Do not prune severely 

 for the first two seasons after planting; 

 rather let the plant become thoroughly 

 established. After that, however, in 

 spring cut back at least one-third of the 

 previous season's growth to produce flowers. 



Because of its robust growth and dark 

 green foliage, the best vine of this family 

 is A. arguta. The flowers are creamy 

 white, with black anthers, and are produced 

 in small, drooping clusters. The foliage 

 is always attractive. Under good con- 

 ditions this plant will attain a height of 

 seventy-five feet. The only reason for 

 growing A. polygama is that it flowers in 

 early July, a time when flowering vines are 

 scarce. The foliage of this is a lighter 

 green, and the plant attains a height of 

 only thirty feet. A . Kolomikta is similar to 

 A. polygama, but a much sparser grower. 



THE AMERICAN WISTARIA 



For bluest effects in early spring, plant 

 the wistaria. When pruning in spring, 

 remove all very weak, thin shoots, and do 



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A combination of vines used for screening. Honeysuckle on the west: akebia on the south; akebia and 



native wistaria on the east 



The star-like flowers of the large-flowered cle- 

 matis are always effective, but the plants are the 

 least sturdy of all vines 



nothing else. Those specially interested 

 in wistarias should read last month's 

 issue of The Garden Magazine. 



On places where there is but a small 

 strip of lawn between the house and high- 

 way, it is not infrequently a hard matter 

 to find something to break up the monotony 

 of the stretch of plain, green grass. It 

 is too small a space for a flower bed, and 

 just the place where a specimen shrub 

 or tree looks stiff. The plant for such 

 a location is the short-clustered wistaria 

 (W. brachybotrys). This is very dwarf, 

 six feet being the limit, but, grown in a 

 good, sunny loca- 

 tion, as a headed-in 

 standard, it is un- 

 equalled. The flow- 

 ers are light purple 

 and are freely borne 

 about the middle of 

 July. There is also 

 a white form (var. 

 alba) and a beautiful 

 red one (var. rubra). 

 The climbing hy- 

 drangea (H. petiola- 

 ris) is a slow vine 

 to establish itself, 

 but, once worked 

 up to the flowering 

 stage, there are few 

 vines to approach 

 it. In its masses of 

 small, white flowers, 

 it slightly resembles 

 the clematis, but it 

 is the better of the 

 two for some pur- 

 poses, as it is a nat- 

 ural rootlet climber 

 and can be used for 

 stone or brick build- 



