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a better variety is the Clematis Paniculta, the well-known 
climber which is starred all over with fragrant white 
blossoms in September. This is an excellent foliage vine, 
perfectly hardy, and very satisfactory if placed in a sunny 
situation. It is a noteworthy fact that few vines can be 
successfully placed out of reach of sunlight. 
Of all imported vines, perhaps the Wistaria is the 
most general favorite. Certainly there is none more 
beautiful. Not only is the whole habit of the vine grace- 
ful and decorative, but the gray-green foliage is delicate, 
and the blue-lavendar flowers wholly charming. The 
best varieties are the Chinensis and the Multijuga. They 
are rapid growers, climbing to a height of fifty feet; but 
there is likely to be a little trouble in their first taking 
root, which makes them often slow about starting. 
Honeysuckles require too much training to be en- 
tirely satisfactory on porch pillars and formal pergolas; 
but they are excellent additions to the effect of a tangie 
of vines, where that is required. The Red Coral is 
beautiful, but subject to severe attacks of green aphis, 
and therefore less satisfactory than the popular Hall’s 
Japan or the Chinese Evergreen. 
Beautiful hardy vines for screens or for heavy shade 
are. found in the Dutchman’s Pipe and the Chinese 
Kudzu Vine. Both make a phenomenal growth. The 
former has singular pipe-shaped flowers, of a brownish 
color, and heart-shaped leaves, that keep their color well 
until late into autumn. Its vigorous growth is frequent!y 
seen upon archways and verandas. The Kudzu vine is 
often called Jack-in-the-Beanstalk. It sometimes grows 
twelve inches in a day, so that its value for quickly coy- 
ering dead trees, fences, arbors, and rockeries, can weil 
be imagined, especially as its large bright-green leaves, 
shaped much like those of a bean-vine, afford very dense 
shadow. 
The -Lycium, or Chinese Matrimony Vine is a 
shrubby climber that makes a vigorous growth, best 
utilized for walls; fences, or trellises. Every new shoot 
is filled with small purple flowers, which in turn are fol- 
lowed by brilliant scarlet berries, and these remain ail 
winter. 
Other hardy vines with shrubby tops are the Akebia 
Quinata and Apios Tuberosa, which resemble wistaria, 
the Periploca Greca or Silk Vine, the Silver Vine, and 
the great variety of Ramblers and other climbing roses. 
Sometimes it is convenient to make use of vines 
which die back to the ground at the end of the season, 
while the root remains perennial in the ground, to start 
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in the spring. Of this class, the Hop is the best instance. 
It will always prove satisfactory. It is clean, delicate, 
graceful, and will grow to the top of a second-story ver- 
anda. By planting the roots very close together, abun- » 
dant shade can be secured, but the prettiest effect from 
hop-vines is purely decorative, and is attained when 
plants are kept far enough apart to permit the play of 
light and shade upon twisted stem, delicate leaf, and 
clusters of characteristic fruitage. A new Japanese Hop 
is now being sold. It has variegated foliage, strikingiy 
marked with silvery white or palest yellow. The Cinna- 
mon Vine, Badiere Vine, and Camelia Vine are all beau- 
tiful climbers which die down to the root. The last- 
mentioned makes the best growth, from fifteen to twenty 
feet. It also produces large rose-colored flowers. 
Often it is desirable to use annuals, to form a screen 
where we did not have one the year before and shall not 
need one next year. Sweet peas upon wire netting are 
too well known to need more than a passing word. For 
some reason, it does not seem to be generally known that 
if the so-called climbing or trailing nasturtiums have a 
stout cord to run upon, they will reach a hight of fifteen 
feet and form a dense screen. The Wild Cucumber or 
Creeping Jenny is very decorative when massed upon 
shrubbery, and combines well with Scarlet Runner or the 
new Hyacinth Bean. The old Morning Glory, which is 
a garden weed at the South, has received re-enforce- 
ments in the shape of a new Japanese Morning Glory of 
large size and novel coloring, and with variegated foli- 
age. Various ornamental gourds are rapid growers 
while the Moonflower sometimes attains a height of forty 
feet in a single season, producing white moonlike flowers 
that are five or six inches in diameter. We have until 
another spring to decide upon these annuals. 
There is a very common mistake made is setting out 
vines, and this is putting them too near to the wall upon. 
which they are to be trained. Keep them away from it 
at least a foot. This will give room for the trellis, if 
one is needed, and will also give some opportunity to 
cultivate the soil about the roots, an attention which is 
required by vines in common with other plants. A wis- 
taria which is making a good growth needs to be hoed, 
and fertilized. It also needs to be mulched, for warmth 
in winter, and for moisture in summer. It is a safe rule 
to follow that the more rapid the growth, the more at- 
tention must be given to the vine, since by its reaching 
out for necessary plant food, the soil about its base is 
rapidly exhausted. 
SINGING BEACH, MANCHESTER 
