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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
1 IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATIONS. 
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[ Conducted by 
Frances Copley Seavey. 
Leave the World a pleasanter place than you found it. 
VINES FOR HOUSE GUOUNUS. 
In considering details of the structural planting 
intended as a background, setting and frame for a 
dwelling and its surrounding grounds, vines are an 
important element. To their judicious use is 
largely due the home like effect that is indispensable 
to such a scheme. 
Vines can never be less than graceful, the 
severest pruning can not check their natural freedom 
CHINKSE WISTARIA ON PORCH. 
of growth, and, like the curling tendrils on the 
head of a little child, they escape all restraint to 
follow the acknowledged line of beauty. 
“Creeping where no life is seen, 
A rare old plant is the Ivy Green.” 
and like it, the mission of the whole vine tribe is to 
beautify — to heal nature’s wounds, to veil her tem- 
porary unsightliness, and to supply the drapery 
which is essential to good results in exterior as well 
as in interior decoration. 
Plants as well as persons do best when allowed 
to follow their natural bent, so, when there is a bare 
wall or tree trunk to be clothed, choose for the 
si luation the vines that walk up such surfaces as 
readily as flies walk on a ceiling — “walking vines” 
they might be termed. As we deal with strictly 
hardy material for permanent planting, the choice 
for such vines is narrowed to three: First, Ampe- 
lopsis Veitchii, otherwise known as Japanese Ivy, 
and, in the east at least, as Boston or South-side 
Ivy; second, Ampelopsis quinquifolia var. Engle- 
mannii, the type being commonly known as Vir- 
ginia creeper, and to some as Woodbine; third, 
Euonymus radicans in both the green and varie- 
gated forms. The Pluonymus is rather slow in 
becoming established, requiring two or three years 
to start into as vigorous growth as either of the 
other vines will make the first season. When set 
at the base of a living tree of considerable size, it 
is a good plan to grow the Euonymus, and even the 
Japanese Ivy, in medium-sized pots for a year or 
two (plunging them an inch or two deeper than 
their own height), and, at the end of one or two 
years, to break the pots without disturbing the 
roots. All vines planted at the base of growing 
trees should be heavily manured every fall to offset 
the relentless demands of the larger plant for 
“more.” 
There is a much wider choice of vines for 
shading porches and other similar situations. Any 
reliable nurseryman’s catalogue gives a fair outline 
of the characteristics of many, and PARK, CEME- 
TERY AND Landscape Gardening frequently 
illustrates the good effects of some of the best. 
In choosing such material, location and require- 
ments must be considered for, as, in all planting, 
success depends in a very large measure upon put- 
ting the right thing in the right place. For in- 
stance, dense-growing vines, such as Akebia, Wild 
grape. Bitter-sweet, Aristolochia sypho, Moon 
vine, etc., are needed where deep shade is wanted; 
but those of lighter growth, like Clematises in 
variety, some honeysuckles, Ipomea digitata, etc., 
where only a slight screen, outline or frieze of 
foliage is the desideratum. Again, the character 
of the support furnished for the vines to run on is 
a factor to be considered, calling in some cases for 
twiners such as Akebia, Wistaria, some Honey- 
suckles. Cinnamon vine, etc.; in others for those 
that climb by tendrils as do grapes. Clematises 
(practically), Cobaeas. Then, again, som^ situa- 
tions demand all the sunshine in winter combined 
with shelter from the glare and heat of summer; 
others are well suited to the use of strong woody 
vines, which would elsewhere be objectionable on 
account of their weight, and only those of lighter 
growth or true herbaceous character would be suit- 
able. Even annual vines have their place and pur- 
pose, being especially valuable in new planting where 
