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scandens) is another well known climber, which ornaments 
our wild trees. Its foliage is very bright and shining, and 
the orange-colored seed-vessels which burst open, and dis- 
play the crimson seeds in winter, are quite ornamental. It 
winds itself very closely around the stem, however^ and we 
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 
picturesque 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 are 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 color 
on the outside, and orange within. The Trumpet Creeper 
is a native of Virginia, Carolina, and the states further 
south, where it climbs up the loftiest trees. It is a great 
favorite 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 orna- 
mental 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 
