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or if allowed to cover a balcony, forming 

 irregular masses which are scarcely more 

 charming when in profuse flower than later, 

 when the luxuriant fohage is fully developed. 



The Virginia-creeper adapts itself in the 

 most versatile way to such supports as it 

 may find, now twining around a fence or 

 lattice and throwing out long free streamers, 

 and now spreading a flat yet gracefully 

 flowing mantle over wide, plain walls. It 

 stands midway in habit between the wisteria 

 and the Japanese ivy — less massive than the 

 former, less delicate and closely clinging 

 than the latter, which adheres to the 

 smoothest walls almost as though each of 

 its leaves had been carefully spread out and 

 fastened in place. A judicious union of 

 these three vines is far more beautiful on a 

 country house than either one alone could 

 be, if for each that spot is chosen where its 

 manner of growth will look most appropri- 

 ate. And, if the climate permits the use of 

 English ivy, this will be an invaluable ad- 

 dition, not only because it is green in win- 

 ter as well as summer, but because it gives 

 the planter a still darker note of color for 



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