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summer come the sweet-peas. All shades, 
pink, white, mauve, purple, and red, like many- 
coloured butterflies, held prisoners by the 
twining green— 
Here are sweet-peas, on tiptoe for a flight, 
With wings of gentle flush o’er delicate white, 
And taper fingers catching at all things, 
To bind them all about with tiny rings. 
Keats. 
The everlasting peas have no scent, but their 
bunches of white, pink, or red flowers are 
so fine that they deserve a place, and will 
flower year after year. The common hop, too, 
comes up every year, unlike the Japanese one, 
which is annual. There are many kinds of vine 
or Vitis which make useful creepers. Besides 
the grape vine, which is very charming even 
when it does not fruit, there are several sorts 
which never have ediblfe fruit, but which are none 
the less effective. The name of one kind is 
Vitis rip aria, another with a hop - shaped leaf 
and bright blue berries in the autumn is called 
Vitis humilifolia , and there are many others. 
Allied to the vines are the Virginian creepers, 
both the common one ( Ampelopsis he derace a), 
and the small-leaved Veitchi, and an evergreen 
one, which is rather more tender, sempervirens. 
A curious plant, with very large leaves and 
funny brown flowers like pipes hanging down 
