THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



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The Most Important Points in 

 Vine Culture 



THE first point to notice in vine culture 

 is the difference between permanent 

 and temporary vines. The woody ones like 

 ampelopsis, Virginia creeper and wistaria 

 which ought to last a lifetime are naturally 

 slow to start. They are, in fact, comparable 

 to trees in this respect as well as in cost and 

 the thoroughness with which the soil should 

 be prepared for them. Since their roots are 

 to go twenty or thirty feet deep or more, the 

 poor soil to a depth of four feet should be 

 thrown away and replaced by good soil, 

 and the ground should be liberally provided 

 with well-rotted manure or with commercial 

 fertilizers. 



If properly planted, the permanent vines 

 will require no attention for the first two 

 years except a little pruning. After that 

 time the strong growers must be kept 

 within proper bounds. It is usually easy 

 to keep vines in good condition by cutting 

 them back a few feet every year. Nearly all 

 of the permanent vines will stand any 

 amount of pruning except wistaria which does 

 best if allowed to grow year after year with- 

 out pruning. The commonest mistake in 

 pruning vines is to allow them to grow for 

 five or six years without any pruning what- 

 soever. This is why you see on porches 

 everywhere vines that are top-heavy, i.e., 

 which have a mass of foliage at the top and 

 scarcely any at the base. This is, of course 

 absurd, for the purpose of growing vines 

 is to screen unsightly buildings, and it also 

 has the disadvantage on a porch of furnishing 

 a hiding place for mosquitoes, and of litter- 

 ing the porch with leaves which fall before 

 their time. If vines are headed back from 

 one to four feet every year from the second 

 to the eighth year, it should be entirely un- 

 necessary to sweep the porch every morning 

 so far as fallen leaves are concerned. The 

 reason why these leaves fall in July and 

 August is that a top-heavy vine is so crowded 

 that the sunshine cannot enter the mass of 

 foliage and ripen the leaves. The vines 

 bear more leaves than they can ripen and 

 it is those imperfectly ripened leaves that 

 fall prematurely. 



The next most important points in vine 

 culture are to determine whether the vine 

 needs artificial support or not, and if so, of 

 what kind ; whether you want a foliage effect 

 or a flowering effect; how high you want the 

 vines to grow, and whether there is any 

 danger of damaging your property in any 

 way. For example, ampelopsis requires no 

 support on any surface whatever. It will 

 grow a hundred feet high, but its flowers are 

 inconspicuous, and since one usually wants 

 color on the porch it is not so good for a ver- 

 anda as a flowering vine which does not grow 

 so tall. Moreover, any vine that grows 

 twenty feet high or more may cause some 

 trouble if it is grown directly on a frame 

 house. You may want to remove the vines 

 in order to paint the house. You can do 

 this easily with any vine that requires arti- 

 ficial support, but it is impossible or difficult 

 with anything that is self-supporting like 

 ampelopsis. 



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