212 HARDY PERENNIALS 
a number of other choice vines which are capable 
of adding lustre to our gardens. Most will thrive 
in quite ordinary soil, and can accommodate them- 
selves to any situation. 
Vines may be propagated by layering of the 
ripened growths of the current season, but plants 
propagated from " eyes," as shown in our illustra- 
tion, eventually make the strongest and finest plants. 
Yucca. — For their stately needle-pointed foliage 
alone a well-developed specimen or two of either 
Yucca filamentosa or gloriosa should be installed 
in every garden. Nothing finer can be wished for 
in the way of an isolated specimen on a lawn, or in 
the centre of a conspicuously placed flower bed, 
than a big plant of Y. gloriosa, the sword-like 
evergreen leaves standing out in every direction 
from the short-stemmed, stout-headed crown, having 
a palm-like appearance suggestive of tropical 
luxuriance and grandeur. The towering columns 
of drooping bell-shaped flowers of an ivory white 
will sooner or later give a display unique and grand, 
and even though we may have to wait a few years 
for this crowning glory the plant in the meantime 
will give us much pleasure, and the ultimate reward 
will be well worth waiting for. Yuccas should be 
planted where they may develop undisturbed and 
throw out their luxuriant foliage to the sunlight. 
When it is desired to propagate, a plant must be 
carefully lifted, and at the roots will be found thick 
fleshy protrusions from the main stock with whitish 
