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Isaac Hicks &■ Son, Westbury Station, N. Y.— Vines 
Vines 
We are too apt to think of Vines as primarily useful for shading porches. Mosquitoes often veto this 
use, for they like to linger where the foliage checks the rapid movement of the breeze. Awnings are more 
expensive, but more controllable porch screens. Vines which harbor mosquitoes are those which have been 
neglected and grow in a dense mass. 
Porch vines should be pruned every year like the Grape, by cutting out all but a few branches. This 
will result in a thin layer of foliage which intercepts the view but allows the breeze to pass. 
Vines are used much less than they might be, simply because people have not seen them or have for- 
gotten or do not use their imagination. Many a landscape or building which is commonplace and ugly, 
may be transformed by the embellishment of a few vines. They decorate without occupying valuable 
space and without serious danger of over-growing their position because they can be readily pruned and 
not injure their beauty or flowering. 
There is a beautiful driveway on the Pratt estate at Glen Cove, lined by stately Locusts. Without 
detracting from their dignity, each trunk is decorated by climbing roses or other vines. The Locust is 
especially favorable to this partnership for it does not utilize all the light and fertility. Locusts are a fre- 
quent part of the landscape on the northern half of Long Island and many object to them because of their 
narrow growth and sparse foliage, but they can be made beautiful all the year with Euonymus radicans for 
winter, Wistaria for early spring, Climbing Roses for June; Clematis, Honeysuckle and Trumpet Creeper 
for midsummer; Virginia Creeper, Bittersweet and Japanese Ivy for autumn. Steep banks may be covered 
and held by vines more effectively and cheaply than by grass. Groups of shrubs may often be edged with 
vines, or vines allowed to clamber upon them, softening their lines and making the whole a more luxuriant 
and harmonious group. The laundry paddock and tennis court may be screened by vines on a wire trell' 
Actinidia Akebia 
Akebia quinata. A vigorous vine with dark green 
foliage which is retained till midwinter. It will 
grow to a great height. The fruit is lead-colored, 
and opens showing a roll of translucent, sweet, 
edible jelly. The fragrant purple flowers are 
small and of rubber-like texture. 
Bittersweet • Celastrus articulata 
A vine which decorates fences, rocks and trees 
throughout autumn and all the winter with bril- 
liant orange berries. We offer it at low rates, so 
that it can be planted in quantity and naturalized 
along banks, woodland borders and where it can 
climb up trees. It will do especially well on Locust 
trees. 
Clematis 
Clematis paniculata. This and the Japanese Ivy 
have come more rapidly into favor than any 
other vines. It is a snow-drift of white stars in 
August. It grows very rapidly and will quickly 
cover porches, pergolas and wire fences around 
tennis courts. If this variety is planted among 
shrubbery and small trees, it will embower them 
with flowers. 
C. Virginiana. A species native to our swamps 
and roadsides, corresponding to the Clematis 
paniculata. It blooms a little earlier and does 
not grow quite so large. 
C. Jackmani. This has large, purple flowers, 
about 6 inches in diameter, and is suitable for 
growing on the pillars in the flower-garden, but 
is not always large enough for a porch vine. For 
some reason (said to be nematode worms in the 
soil), it is difficult to grow, but well worthy of 
repeated trials by those who admire its chaste 
beauty. It is not as often seen on Long Island 
as in some other sections and possibly the soil 
or climate does not suit it. The two species 
above have no weak points, 
C. Henryi. A pure white species like the above. 
Actinidia is a rare Japanese vine, as vigorous and 
healthy as the Wistaria. It has large white flowers 
like orange blossoms and bears fruit that is edible. 
We recommend it as a porch vine, for pergolas, 
fences or climbing up trees. 
The showy red flowers of the Trumpet Creeper will add 
interest to a period in midsummer when flowers are scarce 
outside the garden. 
