July, 1907 



A M E R I 



CAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



XIX 



Occasionally it is desired to place a few 

 plants along the base or stylobate of the per- 

 gola, and there is no better plant for this posi- 

 tion than the bougainvillea : this is a partially 

 trailing shrub of stiff, prickly stems and glossy, 

 dark green leaves, the branches terminating in 

 rosy bracts which are highly ornamental. 

 The plant is a sheet of bloom from May to 

 November, and is easily grown and cared for. 

 The effect of the sprays of rosy bloom over 

 the white marble or granite of the base of the 

 structure is artistic in the extreme. 



The various passion flowers offer charming 

 types suitable for the pergola ; especially is 

 this true of a grafted crimson-scarlet variety 

 which bears its flowers in great racemes two 

 or three feet in length and a foot in diameter, 

 the single flowers measuring some four or five 

 inches in diameter, and as it may be trained to 

 run along the cornice of rafters and drop its 

 great panicles of bloom where they will be 

 most in evidence, it is very desirable. Aris- 

 tolochia elegans is another tropical vine which 

 is always greatly admired, but is very rare. 

 It is, however, of easy culture, growing readily 

 and rapidly in the hottest situation if well fed 

 and suppled with water. The leaves are dark 

 green, leathery and heart-shaped and very or- 

 namental, but it is the curious flowers which 

 attract attention. These are large and platter- 

 shaped, terminating at the back in a curious, 

 crooked neck, so that the plant before opening 

 much resembles a goose. This is not the aris- 

 tolochia known as goose-flower, which is a very 

 shy bloomer, while the A. elegans blooms 

 freely in the open air. The face of the flower 

 is a rich wine color veined and mottled with 

 cream and with a large velvety wine colored 

 blotch about the throat, which is greenish- 

 cream ; altogether it is a handsome and strik- 

 ing flower, and the branches are easily trained 

 and controlled. 



For the arbor or summer house there are 

 all the clematis, of which we have so rich a 

 store, but none better than C. Paniculata, 

 which blooms in September. It is possible, 

 however, by careful selection, to have clematis 

 in bloom from May to November, or nearly. 

 The large flowered lavender varieties which 

 bloom in early summer are followed closely 

 by the white summer bloomers and the red 

 Mrs. Eduard Andre. Later, in August, the 

 native varieties are a mass of flowers, which 

 last until the paniculata is about ready to burst 

 into bloom. 



The clematis are to be recommended not 

 only for their beauty, but also for their hardi- 

 ness and ease of culture, and their freedom 

 from insect pests, which makes the growing of 

 some vines practically impossible. The various 

 honeysuckles are charming when wreathed 

 with their fragrant creamy-pink flowers in 

 early summer, but the attraction they possess 

 for the various aphides, especially the gray, 

 makes their culture, in any but isolated places, 

 practically out of the question. 



The passion vines, Constance Elliot and 

 Southern Beauty, are valuable vines for the 

 summer house where a less common vine is de- 

 sired, but they are not hardy and must be re- 

 moved to the greenhouse in the fall. As they 

 make a strong annual growth their use is en- 

 tirely practical. 



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