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and although not high climbing, it will reach 
high enough to be very effective as part of the 
growth on a garden house. Add to these the 
“ crimson glory vine ” — vitis Colgnetiae — for 
its beautiful foliage and coloring, and the 
combination will be delightful at all times of 
the summer and fall. 
Arbors and pergolas are the home of the 
grape, and here on these there is no reason nor 
excuse for not combining utility with beauty. 
No other foliage has greater claim to regard 
than the leaf of the grape, no bloom is more 
deliciously fragrant, nor is there anything 
more beautiful than the clusters of fruit as they 
ripen, depending overhead. So whatever the 
style of an arbor may be, grapes may and 
should be used on it, likewise on the arbor’s 
Italian cousin — or brother — the pergola. 
Nothing else is truly suitable and appropriate. 
Of annual vines there is only this to say; 
the place which gives space to them is sacri- 
ficing permanent beauty to very little gain in 
even present effects; for good hardy vines, 
planted in the spring or fall, will grow almost 
as much in their first summer as any annual. 
Forty to fifty feet in a single season is the 
average growth of the Kudzu vine, with a 
capacity for surface covering that is immense, 
