Fig. 184. 
CHAPTER VI. 
VINES AND CREEPERS. 
N O one needs to be reminded of the beauty of vines and 
creepers. Many of the most vigorous and beautiful 
vines in the world are indigenous in our woods, in all 
the States; growing on the loftiest trees, and clothing 
even their summits with the waving streamers of their foliage. The 
different sorts of vines may be distinguished as creepers, twiners, 
climbers, and trailers. The creepers are those which throw out 
little roots from their stems as they climb, by which they attach 
themselves to the bark of trees and rough walls, like the Virginia 
creeper and English ivy. Twiners, honeysuckles for instance, rise 
