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A FEW UNCOMMON VINES. 
There have not been a great many new vines in- 
troduced of late years, but there are some new ones, 
RESIDENCE OF MR. H. CRAMER, GERMANTOWN, PHILA- 
DELPHIA. VINE CLAD WITH BIGNONIA CAPREOLATA. 
and there are besides many old sorts brought to no- 
tice, which may almost be classed as new, they 
were heretofore so uncommon. 
Actinidia polygama is a Japanese vine, of value 
for its large green leaves on reddish leaf stalks. It 
is a good vine for covering rockwork or similar 
structures, but is rather of too heavy a growth for 
porches or similar places, unless where something 
heavy is wanted. 
Celastrus articulata is also from Japan. This 
I think a better species in many respects than our 
native staff vine, Celastrus scandens. One valua- 
ble feature is that it evidently bears its flowers and 
scarlet fruit earlier and more profusely than ours 
does. It is a good vine where one is wanted 
to run half wild and where its clusters of red fruit 
would be valued in late fall and winter. 
Dolichos Japonicus, the Kudsu vine is becom- 
ing fairly known. It is noted for the immense 
growth it makes annually. 
Strong plants will make shoots 50 to 75 in 
length of a season. The rosy purple flowers are in 
short racemes, not unlike Wistaria, but are upright 
instead of drooping. The leaves are very large, 
and not unlike those of a Lima bean. This vine is 
almost of a half herbaceous nature, the growth dy- 
ing back partly, but not wholly to the ground. It 
would need planting where lots of room could be 
afforded it. 
The climbing hydrangea, H. scandens, has been 
before the public too long to be deemed new, and 
yet but few persons know of it. As a matter of be- 
lief, but few ever will. It is such a very slow grower 
that no one has patience with it. Given an old log 
to climb to it runs along fairly well, but in hardly 
any other situation is it satisfactory. When seen 
thriving, as I have occasionly seen it, its large 
green leaves are quite attractive. Perhaps as much 
can hardly be said for its flowers, though they are 
not without some merit. 
Vitis CoignetiiE is a grape from Japan, in which 
country its foliage takes on a brilliant scarlet color 
in autumn. In this vicinity, where it has been 
grown for several years, it has failed to take on any 
autumn color at all, simply turning yellow and fall- 
ing as an ordinary grape vine does. But all hope 
has not been abandoned, and we are looking for its 
doing better as the vines get older. 
Clematis paniculata, though newer than any I 
have mentioned, is the best known of all. It is in 
every way an improvement on the well-known flam- 
mula, the old “sweet scented clematis,” being 
strong growing, floriferous, sweet scented and 
hardy. 
Of good old vines, but very little known, there 
is the ever- 
green trumpet 
vine, B i g n o - 
nia capreola- 
ta, a lovely 
vine from the 
southern 
states. Just 
how far north 
it would live 
out I cannot 
say,butitdoes 
very well 
about Phila- 
delphia. This 
does not climb 
by rootlets as 
common 
trumpet vines 
do, but by ten- 
drils, more 
like thegrape. 
Yet it has the 
power of at- 
taching itself 
SPRAT OF FLOWERS OF BIGNONIA tO Stone Walls, 
CAPREOLATA. j have seen 
it sustain itself and climb to the roof of a three story 
building. The flowers are orange yellow, and are 
produced in May, soon after new growth is made. 
