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and as it matures us seed all summer long is 

 easily saved for another season. 



Where a simple tracery of green is desired 

 over a wall, the Alleghany vine, adlumia, is a 

 verj dainty affair and will reach a consider- 

 able height by midsummer. The foliage is 

 \er\ fine and tern-like and the small pinkish 

 white bell-shaped blossoms are clustered thick- 

 Is throughout its length. It is started from 

 seed and will come up selfsown from year to 

 year once it has been established on the 

 grounds. It does somewhat better on the 

 south side of the house, as the sun fades the 

 foliage somewhat in a more exposed position. 

 It is a biennial, making a low clump the first 

 year and only developing as a climber the 

 second summer. 



Stil! another of the more delicate vines is 

 found in the maurandia, a vine with deli- 

 cate, heart-shaped leaves of dark, glossy green, 

 which bears tubed-shaped Bowers of violet, of 

 pink and of white. The plant makes a 

 growth of five or six feet and is an especially 

 desirable vine for the window box and for 

 hanging baskets, being of all the vines known 

 to me the most truly graceful and airy. It is 

 grown, like the thunbergia, from seed and 

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