VINES 
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features. Indeed this is the one vine which 
should never approach a supporting member, 
for it clothes everything it grows upon so com- 
pletely that the shape of it is quite concealed 
and becomes accordingly clumsy. Only the 
loose and airy growth that twines should be 
planted where supports of any kind are in- 
volved. This leaves their form fully revealed 
always, even though festooned and garlanded. 
For planting about a summerhouse almost 
any favorite may be used. Fragrance there 
certainly should be, which either honeysuckle 
or clematis or both may furnish; then there is 
the trumpet creeper — Tecoma radicans — 
which ought always to be given space some- 
where. Nowhere is it better than on an arbor, 
for its showy flowers are seen to the greatest 
advantage amidst a mass of green such as the 
tangle about such a structure affords. Here, 
too, there should be at least one rose; and in 
choosing this, make sure that it is “ JVichurai- 
ana” hybrid rather than a “multiflora” or a 
“ polyantha the former have better foliage 
generally than either of the latter. A choice 
that cannot be bettered is the “ Dorothy 
Perkins,” lovely in foliage as well as when 
strewn with pink blossoms. Our own native 
prairie rose too, is beautiful — rosa setigera — 
