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English Ivy, Hedera helix, is the finest 

 evergreen vine, and there is no one who has 

 seen it clinging to old ruins in England who 

 will not wish to grow it here. It grows slowly, 

 taking fifty years before it flowers and bears 

 fruit, but it is worth waiting for. No vine 

 clings to stone so well. On the south sides 

 of buildings in this climate its leaves will some- 

 times be killed in very hard winters, but it will 

 ordinarily recover and in three months look as 

 well as ever. On the north side of a building 

 where the sun does not reach it is perfectly 

 hardy. 



Cuttings from old vines which have stood 

 the winters here are more likely to be hardy 

 than plants brought from abroad. There are 

 many interesting forms of ivy, and there is a 

 considerable variation in the shape of the 

 leaves. 



Euonymus radicans is an evergreen Japanese 

 vine which is reliably hardy. The leaves are 

 small (one inch long), a bright green with 

 reddish tinges in the winter. It is sometimes 

 variegated with white veinings and streaks, a 

 form not so good as the pure green. The 

 habit of the plant is interesting, and its tex- 

 ture, in mass, is good. It clings by small 

 rootlets to wood and to stone. 



It is good on rough walls and fences, and, 

 like the ivy, is beautiful growing on an old 

 tree. 



Honeysuckles, Lonicera, in many varie- 

 ties are the most useful of vines. Their sweet 

 fragrance makes them pleasant to have on the 

 house, and their dense masses of green leaves 

 provide a perfect screen for laundry yards, 

 tennis courts and the like. It can be grown 

 on a wire fence, making a green and impene- 

 trable hedge. It is nearly evergreen in pro- 

 tected situations. Hall's Japanese Honeysuckle 

 is the commonest and most useful for growing 

 on lattice or wires, and it will also do very 

 well in the shade of trees or of a building. 



L. capr'i, the woodbine, and L. periclyme- 

 num are the best to hold steep and sandy banks 

 where grass will not grow; the latter is the 

 best for shady places. 



The trumpet honeysuckle, L. sempervirens, 

 has a fine coral red flower, but is often at- 

 tacked by the aphis. 



The honeysuckle and all which follow are 

 twining vines, and have no clinging rootlets 

 like the ivy and the others named above. 



Clematis is a large family, with many varie- 

 ties of great beauty to tempt and delight the 

 horticulturalist. 



C. paniculata is the best small-flowered 

 white one. It is a strong grower and a good 

 root will in one season grow almost as much 

 as the annual vines which people commonly 

 plant about summer cottages. It is covered 

 with starry white flowers in September. The 

 foliage is clean and brilliant, and it is every 

 way desirable for piazzas, lattice and pergolas. 



C. jackmanni is a large-flowered blue va- 

 riety which does well on the north side of a 

 house. 



C. virginiana, the wild clematis, is the best 

 vine for shrubby tangles, rustic fences and sim- 

 ilar places. It is found growing in swamps 

 and thickets. The seeds, with their feathery 

 wings, hang on long into the winter. 



The leaves of all clematis are eaten by a 

 black beetle, which should be caught and 

 dropped in a can with a little kerosene in the 

 bottom. The Japanese varieties sometimes suf- 

 fer from a mysterious blight, which makes 

 them wither and die in less than a day. 



The Grape, Vitis, is the best vine in some 

 ways for arbors and pergolas. The cultivated 

 varieties should not be grown on pergolas, 

 however, because there they can not be pruned 

 as they should be, or have the care which is 

 necessary to make them yield good fruit. 



The wild grape, V. riparia, is a good one 

 for pergolas, but V. heterophylla is perhaps 

 better, as its fruit is insignificant and the leaves 

 are irregular and deeply cut. 



The fruiting wild grape, V. labrusca 

 (Northern Fox Grape), is most lovely grow- 

 ing over old walls or rail fences, on trees, or 

 over rocks, and the fragrance of its blossom is 

 the most spicy odor of the woods, and no less 

 delightful is the odor of the ripening fruit in 

 October. These are the grapes to use for 

 real grape jelly. 



Actinidia arguta is a large, fast-growing 

 vine of considerable value, superficially re- 

 sembling the celastrus. It bears a greenish- 

 yellow fruit an inch long, with a fig-like 

 flavor. It is free from the attacks of insects 

 and disease. Like the next, it comes from 

 Japan. 



Akebia quinata is a vigorous grower and 

 desirable because it holds its leaves very late 

 in the fall. It has more refinement than the 

 actinidia and more of the graceful qualities of 

 a vine than the honeysuckle, which sometimes 

 seems an overgrown and weak-backed shrub. 



The flowers are chocolate colored, but the 

 showy, edible fruit does not often mature here. 

 It should have a sunny position and is very 

 good on pergolas. 



Climbing Bittersweet, Celastrus scan- 

 dens, is one of our handsomest native vines. 

 It has abundant dark shining leaves, and the 

 berries, which mature in October and hang on 

 all winter, are a striking contrast of scarlet 

 and orange. 



The Japanese C. orbiculatus is a more vigor- 

 ous grower, but the fruit is not so fine. 



Wistaria, W. chinensis, is an excellent vine 

 for large arbors where the shade should not 

 be dense and where the blossoms can hang 

 down gracefully, and for trees, or wires on 

 the house, carrying it up to a window or 

 balcony. Its beauty is not so long continued 

 as that of the trumpet vine, which it resembles 

 somewhat in foliage. This is also good as a 

 standard in the garden. There is a white va- 

 riety and several double ones which are not 

 desirable. It flowers in May, giving a few 

 scattered blooms again in September. 



W. multijuga is more often used in Japan, 

 but is less hardy and a shy bloomer here. 



In growing vines on the piazza do not use 

 poultry netting, which has too fine a mesh and 

 makes the pruning of the vines nearly im- 

 possible, but run single wires from the ground 

 to the eaves about six inches or a foot apart. 

 One stalk should be trained to each wire and 

 there should be no crossing from one wire f 



