. Horticulture; a text book for high schools and normals, including plant propagation; plant breeding; gardening; orcharding; small fruit growing; forestry; beautifying home grounds; the soils and enemies involved. Fig. 273.—Clumps of spirea may be used to adorn shops and barns. (Michigan Station.) 374 BEAUTIFYING HOME GROUNDS way of climbing, and it will save you much effort in trying to makeit ascend to the heights you desire. Good plants for stone or bricksurfaces are Boston ivy, English ivy, Englemanns ivy, and Vir-ginia creeper on fences. A good vine to cover dead trees, stumps and wooden
. Horticulture; a text book for high schools and normals, including plant propagation; plant breeding; gardening; orcharding; small fruit growing; forestry; beautifying home grounds; the soils and enemies involved. Fig. 273.—Clumps of spirea may be used to adorn shops and barns. (Michigan Station.) 374 BEAUTIFYING HOME GROUNDS way of climbing, and it will save you much effort in trying to makeit ascend to the heights you desire. Good plants for stone or bricksurfaces are Boston ivy, English ivy, Englemanns ivy, and Vir-ginia creeper on fences. A good vine to cover dead trees, stumps and wooden buildings istrailing burning bush, (Euonymus radicans). Virginia creeper andtrumpet vine are fairly well suited to such locations. Vines for wire trellises are the grape, wisteria, Virginia creeper,Virginia clematis, pannicled clematis (Fig. 275), Madeira vine,the beans of various kinds, such as Japanese bean (Lablab), velvetbean, and others. Sometimes it is necessary to change the kind of. Fig. -A striking example of formal gardening with grass plots laid off in geometricforms by the growth of evergreens and privet hedge. support to suit the vine. If vines are already growing near somebuilding a pole may be erected or a wire may be stretched up toaccommodate them. Annual vines should often be used where quick effects are desired,Among these might be mentioned cypress vine, gourds (Fig. 276)wild cucumber, morning glory, the different kinds of climbingbeans, and moonvine. Where perennial kinds can be started atthe same time this should be done to avoid having to replant eachyear and wait for the growth each season. Annual plants may be used for quick effects. Castor beans,shown in figure 277, are very effective. Masses of hemp, sun-flowers, hollyhocks from seeds, cosmos, and other shrub-like flower-ing plants of the herbaceous kinds are effective the first year. ENCOURAGING GROWTH OF ORNAMENTALS 375 Encouraging Growth of Ornamentals.—When shrubs, vines andtrees ar
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