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July, 1907 



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VINES FOR PERGOLAS AND 

 ARBORS 



By Ida D. Bennett 



ANY long structure of poles or lattice 

 work has been in the past, before the 

 pergola came into vogue, known as an 

 arbor, and the term is still good enough for 

 that kind of structure, and its treatment is 

 quite distinct from that accorded the pergola, 

 which may find expression in marble, granite 

 or carven wood, and the architectural features 

 of which are to be brought out and empha- 

 sized rather than concealed, as is the case with 

 arbors of rough posts, timbers or lattice work, 

 which have nothing artistic to recommend 

 them, and serve merely as a support for vines. 



The care of vines on a pergola differs ma- 

 terially from that of vines about an arbor. 

 In the former case they must be kept well 

 within bounds and not allowed to straggle 

 freely about, as they may do to a considerable 

 extent on an arbor. Hence any of the pillar 

 roses are desirable, and by planting a good se- 

 lection of them one may have an abundance of 

 bloom without an oversupply of foliage. The 

 lack of foliage, which is often a fault in climb- 

 ing roses, is an advantage, as it allows the 

 pillars, base and capital to be seen. The 

 jackmanni clematis is also a good pergola 

 vine, altliough on a house or arbor it leaves 

 much to be desired from its habit of blooming 

 at the extremities of the branches with a con- 

 siderable stretch of bare stems below. The 

 paniculata clematis is far too rank a grower 

 for this use, but is admirable on house or 

 arbor. The jackmanni, when trained straight 

 up the pillars and carried along the entabla- 

 ture, will afford a living frieze of loveliest 

 color and form. Other forms of clematis lend 

 themselves less readily to this form of decora- 

 tion and spread more or less broadly from the 

 ground up. This makes them available where 

 broad spaces are to be covered, but there should 

 be little or no growth between the pillars of a 

 pergola, the greater part of the growth being 

 diverted to covering the rafters and outlining, 

 lightly, the cornice and pillars. 



For effective rafter draping the wisteria is 

 without a peer, as it climbs readily to a con- 

 siderable height, its foliage is light and it 

 drops its flowers in long, loose racemes from 

 the ends of the branches — an arrangement very 

 artistic for the pergola. Another plant of 

 similar habit but laden with rose-colored flow- 

 ers is the mountain beauty, Antigonon Lepto- 

 pus. This is a hardy vine as the South and 

 through the Middle States, but requires con- 

 siderable protection during winter at the 

 North ; as the roots are tuberous they may be 

 taken up in the fall and stored in a warm cel- 

 lar. The Quisquallis Indica, or Rangoon 

 creeper, is a beautiful twining shrub from 

 India, where it is much used about the porch 

 pillars, and would do admirably for twining 

 about the pergola columns ; it is not hardy, but 

 may be wintered in a warm cellar or green- 

 house. Certain of the solanums are desirable 

 vines for twining ; among these S. Wendlandii 

 is especially fine and makes a rank growth of 

 many feet in a season, but as the branches are 

 not freely branched and the foliage sparse, it 

 does not conceal, and the immense heads of 

 violet flowers, a foot across, are very orna- 

 mental ; it is tender and must be wintered in- 

 doors. Certain of the tropical tecomas are 

 worthy of culture in positions where their 

 great beauty will be appreciated. Notably 

 among these may be mentioned capensis, with 

 its fine bunches of bright red flowers, which 

 are continually in bloom. Bignonia argyreo vio- 

 lescens, of the tecoma family, has beautifully 

 variegated leaves of green, white and purple, 

 and B. tweediana has splendid yellow flowers 

 — a color rare in climbers. 



