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PREPARED 
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PREPARED 
TO PLANT VINES 
Give your plants the best possible start by following these 
simple planting instructions. 
Anything you may do for 
them later will not remotely benefit them as much as the 
care you take in transplanting them now. Remember .. . 
while this vine is just a small potted plant now, little differ- 
ent from the Ivy you have in your house, it will need as 
much food as a good-sized Elm tree by the time it has 
climbed to the top of the chimney or covered a wall of your 
house. 
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Dig hole about 12 inches square and 18 inches deep. 
Spade some well-rotted manure, leaf mold, peat, or 
compost and a handful of fertilizer, such as bone meal, 
into the subsoil. Mix manure and bone meal with good 
top soil and fill up the hole. 
Into this well prepared ground plant the vine, with the 
base of the plant about 1 inch below the ground level 
and 12 inches from the wall or post. Let the runners 
creep towards the wall to which they will soon fasten 
themselves by means of holdfasts or suction disks. Water 
thoroughly and thereafter keep ground moist but do not 
drown the plants nor otherwise kill them with kindness. 
On the Ivy stems are small suction-cup like growths 
called holdfasts which hold the vine firmly to even the 
smoothest surface. The vine should be started up the 
wall while small. Once they have taken hold firmly it 
is almost impossible to pull them off without breaking 
their stems. If driving rains and high winds tend to 
loosen the vines before they are tightly anchored, it may 
be necessary to help them along by fastening the 
branches to the wall with tape or specially designed 
nails (as illustrated ). 
Occasionally wash vines to keep leaves clean, especially 
underneath to prevent insect pests from infesting the 
plants. Loosen soil around them a few times the first 
sedson or two. 
Mulch Ivies lightly with leaves, straw, hay, peat, or 
similar material the first year or two. Once the plant is 
well established and acclimated no further special care 
is necessary. Mulch Clematis every year. 
When an old vine has grown too heavy it may be 
trimmed in much the same way that shrubs and trees 
are pruned. Start at the top and work down. Trim a 
few feet at a time. Pruning should be a thinning-out 
process. Don’t just chop off the growth, especially 
around the doors and windows. 
