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The latter half of September is a very favorable 
time for deciduous trees to be planted. The pro- 
cess differs but little from that required by ever- 
greens. The stripping of the foliage is the chief 
difference. Take this off, then treat the tree as 
directed for evergreens. Pour in lots of water in 
the same way, to solidify the soil, then after all has 
well settled fill up loosely to the level of the ground 
with the rest of the soil. 
The reason why early planting is generally more 
successful than that of any other period is this. The 
soil is warm, quite warm and this, with the moist- 
ure, causes new roots to form at once, and with 
these advanced, success is assured. Let any one 
who has not seen this, experiment for information 
sake. Take some tree in late summer, treat it as 
directed, stripping the leaves etc., planting and so 
on and then in about four weeks time dig it up 
again. If the planting has been as successful as 
the most of mine has, he will find a lot of new roots 
have formed from the old ones. The soil in late 
summer is really like a hotbed, and it forces out 
roots as a hotbed does. 
With plenty of water at command I would pre- 
fer planting both evergreens and deciduous trees in 
early fall to any other season. 
Joseph Meehan. 
CLINGING VINES. 
Vines have different ways of attaching them- 
selves to solid bodies. English ivy, ampelopsis and 
ficus repens are three that cling by tendrils, that 
adhere with the greatest tenacity to solid bodies. 
Tendrils are important and characteristic ap- 
pendages to plants. Botanists say vines with ten- 
drils have the property that is called the “instinctive 
intelligence of plants.” A poetical botanist repre- 
sents “the gourd and cucumber as creeping away in 
disgust from the fatty fibres of olives. ” It has been 
ascertained by experiment, that the tendrils of the 
vine, and some other plants, recede from the light 
and seek opaque bodies. The fact with respect to 
leaves is directly the reverse of this. 
In the ivy and ficus repens the tendrils serve as 
roots, planting themselves firmly in solid substan- 
ces. The aerial roots of the ivy and the ficus serve 
as examples of the botanical definition of tendrils as 
“transformed terminal buds.” 
Ampelopsis clings as closely as ivy and ficus, 
but by different means. The tendrils are terminated 
by disks, or suckers that adhere with remarkable 
tenacity to flat surfaces. Turning back the heavy 
drapery this beautiful vine, ampelopsis Veitchii, or 
Boston ivy, forms, one not familiar with its habits 
will be interested to see the web-foot disks, flat to 
the surface, holding the vine in place as firmly as 
if glued. This power to cling and support itself 
recommends each of the three vines here enumerated. 
They need no staples, no wires, and very little 
training. 
Ivy and ampelopsis are too well known to 
need description. They are popular in all sections, 
and cosmopolitan on the score of ability to resist 
the dust and heat of southern, and the most in 
tense cold of northern cities. 
The Boston ivy is always the freshest, cleanest 
mass of foliage to be seen, during the heated 
The Receiving Vault, Metairie Cemetery, with Ampelopsis Veitchii. 
term in New Orleans, when the dust and smoke 
affect vegetation seriously. High up, on church 
towers, and lofty walls, too high for the watering 
hose, ordinarily, to reach, this vine never suffers 
