XV1U 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



June, 1908 



THE SINGER BUILDING, NEW YORK 



Ernest Flagg, Architect 

 THE TALLEST BUILDING IN THE WORLD 



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very easy vine to grow, being readily started 

 from seed sown in the house or hotbed early 

 in the spring and transplanted out when the 

 weather is warm; this and furnishing it 

 something to cling to is all it requires, and 

 when grown on trees, brick or stone work, 

 even that is not necessary, as it will cling to 

 anything it can get a hold on. It thrives 

 equally well in the sun or in the shade, in- 

 deed is the best vine I know for shady situa- 

 tions. I grow it each year on the north side 

 of the house, and it is covered with its beau- 

 tiful bells of white, of purple and of mauve 

 until frost has cut all the other annual vines 

 on the place. 



Another very dainty vine is the scarlet- 

 bloomed cypress vine, Ipomoea Quamoclit; 

 this and the ivy-leaved variety of the same 

 should be much more cultivated than it is. 

 There is a very elegant gourd that should be 

 used more — the Bryonopsis; this has deeply 

 lobed foliage and is covered with fruit about 

 the size of a gooseberry, green striped with 

 white when immature, but changing to scar- 

 let when it ripens. It is an exceedingly or- 

 namental vine and a very rapid grower and 

 easily raised from seed. It combines well 

 with the wild cucumber. Then we have al- 

 ways with us the morning glory and the 

 sweet pea, though the Japanese form of the 

 former is not so commonly grown. 



Certain of the celosias are fine for mass- 

 ing, as Thompson's Superb and Magnifica, 

 and are useful to edge beds of taller growing 

 plants like carinas and ricinus. 



But it is, perhaps, in the inventing of un- 

 usual places for flowers that the garden in 

 the temporary home will gain its greatest 

 interest. Often this becomes obligatory 

 from the reluctance of landlords to have a 

 well-sodded lawn cut up into flower beds, 

 and if one is so fortunate as to possess a land- 

 lord with sufficient taste to surround his tene- 

 ments with well-prepared lawns one should 

 respect his feelings in the matter and give 

 one's care to preserve and enhance rather than 

 to disfigure and destroy. 



So when there is no available land which 

 may be devoted to the growing of flowers one 

 must look about them for a substitute. Pos- 

 sibly there is a wooden dividing fence of sub- 

 stantial construction and not too high to be 

 readily reached from the ground ; now, if 

 vines may not grow up this fence there is no 

 valid reason why they should not grow down 

 and along. Narrow boxes placed upon its crest 

 and filled with bright flowers and trailing 

 vines will be ornamental in the extreme. It 

 will be advisable in constructing these boxes 

 to make them as nearly water-tight as pos- 

 sible, and to supply each section of box with a 

 bit of tube, closed with a plug, which will 

 carry all surplus water out beyond and away 

 from the fence that injury may not arise to 

 the owner's property from this source ; it will 

 also be well that the boxes rest on strips of 

 wood laid crosswise of the fence so that the 

 air may pass beneath them and prevent the 

 rotting of boxes and of fence; thus protected 

 it only remains to fill with a good quality of 

 earth and to plant. It will be well in select- 

 ing the flowers to be grown to select those 

 of medium growth and those which will not 

 be seriously injured by a temporary drought, 

 as plants confined in narrow limits and ex- 

 posed to the hot air and wind on all sides 

 have much more to contend with than the 

 same plants growing in the ground ; the 

 boxes should not be too far from the water 

 supply, and, it is needless to say, should never 

 be neglected. They will need a thorough 

 soaking during hot weather every day and 

 sometimes twice a day. 



Then there is infinite possibilities in win- 

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