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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



July, 1906 



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tempt be made to imitate it in the well kept 

 suburban home or the city residence. In all 

 planting in the immediate vicinity of the 

 home, the extreme of neatness is called for. 

 Everything, lawn and parterre, calls for per- 

 fect grooming and the careless of vine and 

 leafage should be studied and not allowed to 

 become rampant and uncontrolled. 



There is a certain stubborn prejudice in 

 the minds of certain people anent the growing 

 of vines on the house arising from a false 

 idea that they cause decay. This idea I find 

 more prevalent in country towns than in the 

 city where it is rare to see a handsome house 

 that is not beautified with the ivy or Boston 

 ivy. I do not think that the idea of vines 

 drawing moisture or causing decay has any 

 foundation in fact. Certainly it has not been 

 my experience, as I have always grown vines 

 on my own dwelling and have had frequent 

 occasion to note that the parts of the house 

 protected from the hot sun by such vines as 

 woodbine and the like remained in much bet- 

 ter state of preservation as to paint and the 

 like than the unprotected portions, and it is 

 a well known fact that in England where the 

 use of vines on buildings is universal, in 

 many buildings protected by the ivy it is al- 

 most impossible to tear away the stone work, 

 so perfectly has the ivy protected the cement 

 with which the stone is laid. 



Certainly a house is rendered not only 

 more attractive by the judicious use of vines, 

 but it is also made far more comfortable; es- 

 pecially is it the case in frame houses, where in 

 summer the sun seems to find little obstruc- 

 tion in the wooden walls and penetrates the 

 house to an uncomfortable degree. A screen 

 of leaves would prove a great protection for 

 the walls of the house itself and convert a 

 hot and sunny porch into a cool and shady 

 refuge from heat. 



Probably the most satisfactory vine for the 

 dwelling place is the hardy ivy that, once 

 planted, continues to increase in growth and 

 beauty from year to year. The English ivy, 

 the Boston ivy and the woodbine are excel- 

 lent examples of this class of vines, remain- 

 ing in leafage throughout the summer and late 

 fall ; they do not, however, bloom, and blos- 

 soming vines have a charm that must always 

 commend them to the home-maker. Of these 

 the clematis is easily first in the affections, 

 both from its wealth of bloom and the ease 

 with which it is grown and trained. The 

 large flowered clematis are all beautiful and 

 showy, and reasonably easy to grow. But 

 C. paniculata has probably the finest eye for 

 decorative effect of all the family. Its work is 

 truly artistic. It does not run riot like the 

 Virgin's bower or the wild clematis, still it 

 makes quite as luxuriant a growth, but it has 

 a neatness of habit, a certain self restraint, as 

 it were, that recommends it for general plant- 

 ing, and then its wealth of bloom! and al- 

 ways in the most effective position as if pre- 

 meditated. Not a blossom wasted or tucked 

 away out of sight, but one and all brought 

 well to the front and crowning the leafage 

 with a wreath of snow. 



C. paniculata grows and thrives in most 

 any situation where the water will not stand 

 around its roots in winter and needs little or 

 no protection in winter, though like most 

 plants it will appreciate good care and soil 

 and nourishment. 



The common wild clematis — she of the 

 feathery seed pod, is another graceful climber 

 and gives a wealth of flowers somewhat earlier 

 than C. paniculata and may be planted in 

 company with it if kept carefully trained and 

 pruned and so prolong the blooming season 

 from early in August till late September or 

 early October. 



One of the most beautiful of our hardy 

 vines is the wistaria. Unfortunately it is a 



