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(Mutang Grape), Texas; capreolata, Himalay- 

 as; cartba>a, Florida ; Champini,TtX2^\ cinerea 

 (Sweet Winter Grape) Western America ; 

 Coignetice, Japan ; cor dif alia (Chicken Grape), 

 United States ; doaniana, Texas ; erio- 

 c/ada, India ; ficifolia,Qhm& and japan ; 

 flexuosa, China and Japan ; girdiana,Ca\i- 

 fornia ; heterophylla (Hop-leaved Vine), 

 China and Japan ; himalayana, India ; 

 inconstans, in two or three varieties, 

 from China and Japan ; indivisa, South- 

 ern United States ; japonica (variegated 

 form), Japan; Labrusca (Plum Grape), 

 North America ; Long//', Texas ; munso- 

 niana (Ever-bearing Vine), Florida ; 

 orienta/is, from the East ; palmata (Cat 

 Grape) Central United States ; persica, 

 Persia and Afghanistan ; quinquefolia 

 (Virginia Creeper), North America ; 

 Romaneti, North China ; rotundifolia, 

 United States ; rupestris (Sugar Grape), 

 United States; serianczfolia, China and 

 Japan ; striata, Brazil and Uruguay; 

 Thunbergii, China and Japan ; Tre/easei, 



Texas ; vinifera (Grape Vine) — varieties v. 

 corinthiaca (Currant Grape), laciniosa (Parsley- 

 leaved Vine), Davidii, and many others — 

 China; vulpina (Frost Grape), North America. 



VINE-SHADED BOWER. 



The Home Nursery, as seen on estates ofany 

 size, is often a scene of neglect or mismanage- 

 ment, when planned from the too common 

 point of view of planting "transplanted stuff" 

 instead of thelittle two-year-old plants that are 

 the hope of the wise planter. In very large 

 wooded estates the home nursery, managed as 

 a forest nursery, may be worth having, for the 

 sake of raising one or two kinds of trees grown 

 to greatest profit in the district, but in far the 

 greater number of places it is far better to buy 

 from a forest nursery the young plants in the 

 best state for planting. Then we have only to 

 see that the little trees are of proper size, and 

 we buy at a price often less than we can raise 

 the trees at home. Among the reasons for this 

 plan is that many soils that grow trees well are 

 not suited for raising them from seed. On the 

 other hand, good forest nurseries are usually on 

 the best possible soils for raising seeds of trees 

 of all kinds; nor should we forget that saving or 

 collecting seeds of Pines and other trees and 

 raising them in the best state for planting is a 

 life's work of itself. 



Mountain Flowers. — Together with 

 this great source of pre-eminence in mass of 

 colour, we have to estimate the influence of 

 the finished inlaying and enamel work of the 

 colour-jewelry on every stone ; and that of the 

 continual variety in the species of flower ; most 

 of the mountain flowers being, besides, sepa- 

 rately lovelier than the lowland ones. The 

 Wood Hyacinth and Wild Rose are, indeed, 

 the only supreme flowers that the lowlands can 

 generally show ; and the Wild Rose is also a 

 mountaineer, and more fragrant in the hills, 

 while the Wood Hyacinth, or Grape Hyacinth, 

 at its best, cannot match even the dark Bell- 

 Gentian, leaving the light blue Star-Gentian 

 in its uncontested queenliness, and the Alpine 

 Rose and Highland Heather wholly without 

 similitude. The Violet, Lily of the Valley, 

 Crocus, and Wood Anemone are, I suppose, 

 claimable partly by the plains as well as the 

 hills ; but the large Orange Lily and Narcis- 

 sus I have never seen but on hill pastures, and 

 the exquisite Oxalis is pre-eminently a moun- 

 taineer. — Modern Painters. 



