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have known it to strangle or compress the bodies of young 
trees so tightly as to put an end to their growth. 
The Trumpet Creeper, ( Bignonia radicans ,) is a very 
showy climbing plant. The stem is quite woody, and often 
attains considerable size ; the branches like those of the Ivy, 
and Virginia Creeper, fasten themselves by the roots thrown 
out. The leaves ark pinnated, and the flowers, which are 
borne in terminal clusters on the ends of the young shoots 
about midsummer, are exceedingly showy. They are tubes 
five or six inches long, shaped like a trumpet, opening at the 
extremity, of a fine scarlet colour on the outside, and orange 
within. The Trumpet Creeper is a native of Virginia, Ca- 
rolina, and the states farther south, where it climbs up the 
loftiest trees. It is a great favourite in the northern states as 
a climbing plant, and very beautiful effects are sometimes 
produced by planting it at the foot of a tall-stemmed tree, 
which it will completely surround with a pillar of verdure, 
and render very ornamental by its little shoots, studded with 
noble blossoms. 
One of the most singular and picturesque climbing shrubs 
or plants which we cultivate, is the Pipe- vine, or Birthwort, 
(Aristolochia sipho.) It is a native of the Alleghany moun- 
tains, and is one of the tallest of twining plants growing on 
the trees there to the height of 90 or 100 feet, though in 
gardens it is often kept down to a frame of four or five feet 
high. The leaves are of a noble size, being eight or nine 
inches broad, and heart-shaped in outline. The flowers, 
about an inch or a little more in length, are very singular. 
They are dark yellow, spotted with brown, in shape like a 
bent siphon-like tube, which opens at the extremity, the whole 
flower resembling, as close as possible, a very small Dutch- 
man's pipe , whence the vine is frequently so called by the 
