Art Out-of-Doors 
or if allowed to cover a balcony, forming 
irregular masses which are scarcely more 
charming when in profuse flower than later, 
when the luxuriant foliage 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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