October, 1908 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



XV 



manii, deep violet, and the Henryi, creamy 

 white, are two of the very best, but I have yet 

 to see anything for late summer comparable 

 to paniculata. It is a luxuriant grower, en- 

 tirely hardy, and covers a veranda or pillar 

 or fence or any other support with a delicate 

 florescence late in the season. Its shoots make 

 twenty-five feet easily in a year. For earlier 

 blooming on the same arbor, trellis or porch, 

 grow our common American white clematis. 

 For wild places, or rockeries, make liberal use 

 of American ivy, commonly called Virginia 

 Creeper. The glory of this ivy is the autumn 

 coloring. It can be used to clamber up old 

 trees and fill them with inconspicuous foliage 

 in the summer, but a glorious mass of color 

 in the fall. I have never seen it finer than 

 when growing over old stumps, or charred 

 trees, ten, twenty or thirty feet high. It 

 manages to give a noble appearance to old 

 charred wood lots. 



For low-growing vines I have yet to find 

 anything more delicious than the common 

 nasturtium. Of course, it must be sown 

 every year, but it grows with great rapidity, 

 and covers low trellises and fences with one 

 of the most wholesome flowers in existence. 

 However, make more use of the grapevine. It 

 will never disappoint you, and it keeps the 

 house cool, while it is furnishing the best of 

 food for your table. An ordinary barn can 

 just as well furnish you ten bushels of grapes, 

 or twenty, as to have its walls hot with the 

 summer sun and bare of all suggestions of 

 either beauty or utility. Remember to fasten 

 your house vines to wires, running horizontally 

 across the siding. The vines that I have rec- 

 ommended will do no damage to the wood, 

 but if tied to wires will be of decided pre- 

 servative value to the paint. In some parts 

 of the country the bittersweet is one of the 

 very best of vines to plant for almost all pur- 

 poses. It grows about ten feet in a season, 

 with fine large leaves, yellow flowers, and 

 clusters of orange-colored fruit. There is, 

 however, one drawback to this vine, that it 

 easily gets buggy or covered with aphis. It 

 does not like the shade. For sunny spots it is 

 excellent. In Florida there is a wonderful 

 vine called the velvet bean. It grows sixty to 

 seventy feet in a season, and is loaded every- 

 where with flowers and brilliant seedpods. 

 The bean resembles the old cranberry bean. 

 With a little care you can grow this bean as 

 far north as New York and Boston, but it 

 will not ripen its seeds in those latitudes. It 

 is a legume of the highest value for forage 

 and for adding nitrogen to the soil. We may 

 be able to get a sport of it much more hardy. 



I have not laid too much emphasis on this 

 matter of planting vines. Nature intended 

 them to fill up gaps, and to run around on 

 offices that other vegetation can not fill. Her 

 ideal vine seems to be the honeysuckle, in a 

 small way ; and the grape in a large way. 

 Use these just as freely as you can. Do not 

 leave a pile of stones or an old stone fence or 

 a bit of wild scrub in its unsightliness. I have 

 left out of my count quite a number of vines 

 that will suggest themselves to you, because 

 of their beauty or because they can be easily 

 obtained. 



Living in a section where the hops is grown 

 for market, I wonder that this vine is not 

 more often used for ornament. In some sec- 

 tions the wild hop vine is also very beautiful. 

 However, do not make too much of wood 

 trellises and arbors just to have them covered 

 with vines. As a rule these woody things are 

 only half covered, and are excresences rather 

 than ornamental. I have seen a great many 

 wooden arbors about the country, and they 

 are generally about as beautiful and about as 

 useful as observatories on the tops of private 

 houses. The most artificial and disagreeable 

 place I ever saw in the country was made up 

 of arbors, rockeries, sheared evergreens and 



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