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each long extending branch sending out side 
shoots and spreading to an unbelievable de- 
gree. And the other hardy vines which are 
useful for shade or screen are none of them 
slow growing. So there is nothing gained by 
introducing the annuals, save where they will 
not conflict with, or hinder, the perennial 
growth. 
The real gain in time and effect comes 
through getting vines set out the instant build- 
ing operations are over. Indeed they need not 
be over altogether; all that is necessary to 
admit vine planting is a cleaned up base line 
about the dwelling — and sufficient protection 
to the vines after they are in the ground to 
keep them from being trampled. Stakes 
driven around them will do this; and lumber 
may be lying about and workmen may come 
and go without doing a bit of harm, or hind- 
ering the establishment of vines thus fore- 
handedly started in the least. Given a chance 
thus to get to work just as soon as the ground 
is available for them, it is astonishing to see 
what they will accomplish by the time the 
place generally is graded and finished and 
ready for the rest of the planting. 
Not only the dwelling but every building 
large or small should have its allowance of 
