CHAPTER VI 
Vines 
I T may seem at first thought like departing 
from the real issues of a garden to begin 
the considerations of planting with that 
class of vegetation which, by its very nature, 
can take no real place in the garden design. 
But vines more quickly than anything else unite 
a house with the ground; hence they are the 
first things which may and should be planted, 
rather than the last, although the latter has 
been more generally the custom. They give 
finish to the most barren place in a single sum- 
mer, and, rightly handled, afford an amount of 
shade equal to years of growth of trees — be- 
sides furnishing very beautiful bloom if the 
purely ornamental kinds are used, or an abun- 
dance of fruit if the grape is included. More- 
over, all this is done with the very least use of 
ground space ; where there is room for nothing 
at all literally, in the way of a garden, there is 
still room for a vine, or for several. 
With vines as with all other garden mate- 
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