(Irish Ivy) needs covering. H. Caenivoodiana has small black 
green leaves, and H. palmata is deep green with bronze tones. 
"We all know and use the Ampelopsis Veitchi (Boston Ivy) of 
rapid growth, dark blue berries (beloved of starlings) and bright 
green foliage that turns so brilliantly red, and its more vigorous 
relative A. Veitchii robust a. A. tricuspidata Lowii (Lowe's 
Ampelopsis) is wonderful for low walls, its many-lobed delicate 
foliage, turning bright red, clings to the smoothest surface. With 
the Euonymous group we are all familiar, they are slow but hardy 
and invaluable for covering small spaces. They hold their 
leaves all winter and their spring growth is brilliantly green. 
radicans has white veins; acuta, more pointed leaves; Carrieri 
more spreading branches when grown ; variegatus, as its name 
implies ; vegetus has lovely red fruits in a lavender-gray pod, and 
Kewensis is tiny but its dark foliage is charming on rocks or 
under trees where grass will not grow. Hydrangea petiolaris 
(Climbing Hydrangea) is a strong climber with round green 
leaves and flat white blooms. It is often confused in catalogs 
with Scizopliragma hydrangeoides, another Japanese climber 
of similar habit. The latter has white or pink flowers and will 
not flower in the open on a sunny wall. 
For hanging over a wall, or for ground covers, the Roses, the Hardy 
Hedera Helix (English Ivy) and the Lonicera (Honeysuckle) Trailers 
are the best , though other kinds can be made to serve in spite of 
their upward tendency. The two Lycium, Chinense and halim- 
ifolium (Matrimony vine or Box Thorn) have a pleasing habit of 
arching over, and with their bright green foliage and many red 
fruits are very effective. These are often confounded with 
L. Europaeum and L. Barbarum, which are not hardy north. 
Invaluable to fill in while perennial vines are getting estab- Annuals 
lished on trellis or pergola, and so beautiful in themselves that 
we plant them every year, are some of the annual vines. 
Ipomoea Grandiflora (Moon Flower) with its enormous growth 
and fragrant white blossoms opening on dull days and at dusk, 
and I. rubro-caerulea (Heavenly Blue) difficult to raise and more 
difficult to get to bloom, is a beautiful thing when covered with its 
sky-blue blossoms. These, and Dolichos Lablab (Hyacinth Bean) 
with its quick growth, white or purple blossoms and decorative 
seed-pods are indispensible. I. Quamoclit pinnata (Cypress 
vine) has delicate fine foliage and its hybrid Q. coccinea heder- 
ifolia (Cardinal Climber) has small flowers of a good red. 
Thunbergia alata (Black-eyed Susan) a hanging vine with bright 
green foliage, and white, straw, and orange flowers with a black 
eye, is often used in window boxes, but in the ground makes a 
good mass. For most rapid development, to screen unsightly 
objects, nothing is better than Eckinocystis (Cucumber Vine) 
Humulus Lupulus (Hop vine) ; Ipomoea purpurea (Morning 
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