Close to the House 
one another and the ground which bears 
them. 
This is only a typical suggestion, exactly 
fitted, perhaps, for not one house in a thou- 
sand. But although sites, exposures, cli- 
mates, and the colors and materials of house- 
walls vary much, there is a great treasury 
of vines and creepers to draw upon, and 
in few cases need a planter be at a loss for 
draperies of entire appropriateness. The 
important things are, to know just what your 
house needs, and to know just how the differ- 
ent creepers look when they are growing on 
a house, and under just what conditions each 
one will grow best. 
Each vine, each creeper, has a special 
character of its own, determined by its 
habit of growth as well as by the character 
of its foliage and flowers. Wisteria, for ex- 
ample, will not cling to a flat wall ; it needs 
some other support. It will clamber very 
high with the aid of a single wire, but, as it 
then looks, is best in place on a city house 
or on a country house of formal design. On 
picturesque houses it looks better if trained 
over a trellis-work of wires against a wall, 
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