HOUSE AND GARDEN 
June, 
1912 
55 
themselves) they will quickly attain a 
height of five or ten feet, and the large 
leaves have a beautiful metallic luster. 
They grow, when once started, like weeds, 
and are very gross feeders. 
Cannas, started plants of which can be 
had very cheaply, also make a quick and 
tall growth, with very attractive foliage. 
The newer sorts are used for their 
gorgeous blooms, but the foliage is also 
most attractive. These also are easily kept 
over winter, and can be started in the 
spring to produce immediate effects out- 
of-doors. 
Many a good veranda is rendered next 
to useless during the hot part of the sum¬ 
mer through lack of vines to keep it 
shaded and cool. Honeysuckle, wistaria, 
trumpet-creeper, and such long lasting 
things one does not feel like investing in 
for a season or two. But there is a num¬ 
ber of rapid growing annuals of which 
most florists and seedsmen have started 
plants for sale, and which will cover trel¬ 
lises and supports in almost incredibly 
short periods of growth. Among them 
are the Japanese hop, the variegated form 
of which is one of the most strikingly 
handsome of all vines, Cobcca Scandens, 
with its numerous bell flowers. Others 
are the cypress vine, with intense scarlet 
blossoms; the new scarlet climber, the 
fantastic canary-bird vine, the marvelously 
rapid kudzu vine, and even the “scarlet 
runner” bean, which, if it were only rare 
and high-priced, instead of a common 
vegetable, would be considered a very 
beautiful thing. All of these are so cheap 
and so easily grown that there is no excuse 
for bare posts, shadeless porches, and sun- 
scorched windows, even in the vacation 
home. 
While there is no room here to take up 
in detail the planting of a vacation gar¬ 
den, it may be said in passing that a gar¬ 
den planted after July i is perfectly prac¬ 
tical, and can be made to pay for itself 
handsomely; in fact, will yield its owner 
many of the best vegetables at a time when 
their “season” with the neighboring mar¬ 
ket gardener has gone by. There exists 
the same necessity to have the soil rich, 
and to get things under way as soon as 
possible, but the majority of the vegetables 
can be had in this way just as well as not, 
and much cheaper and surer than they can 
be bought from the farmers round about. 
Ivlaking the Summer Home At¬ 
tractive 
(Continued from page 25) 
cost $2.50 a pair. 
From France some very charming 
things have found their way to our 
shores. The two washstand sets shown 
in the illustrations come from Brittany. 
They are made of heavy earthenware and 
are finished in a high glaze in two colors. 
The set which is made to hang on the wall 
is a bright green. The ewer or pitcher 
U-BAR GREENHOUSES 
PIERSON U-BAR CO 
ONE MADISON AVE.. NEW YORK. 
CANADIAN OFFICE. 10 PHILLIPS PLACE. MONTREAL 
T HAT’S because of the U-Bar itself. The use of 
it as the frame work of the house makes possible 
treatments and effects flatly impossible to secure 
with other constructions. 
A circular Palm House, for Instance, is exclusively 
a U-Bar feature. How much more attractive it is, in 
connection with the curved eave houses that join it, 
than would be one with the usual square or cut corner lines! 
Curves — graceful, sweeping curves are one of the distinctive feat¬ 
ures of U-Bar greenhouses. 
And even as the U-Bar adds to the beauty of the building, so it 
does to the productiveness of the house. But that’s another story 
which is best told either by our catalog or a representative. 
Send for either. Or both. 
When you do build, of course you wiU want a compartment for ferns. 
Right along that line we have a suggestion to make. 
In zvriting to advertisers please mention House and Garden. 
