. The beginner's garden book; a textbook for the upper grammar grades. Gardening. VINES 223 taller year by year, until their stems are often, at the base, bigger than a man's arm. Nine of them are worth any one's growing. Most famous is the English ivy. This climbs by clinging rootlets, and will cover almost any building in the course of time. Its close, dark green foliage is beautiful and Fig. 118. — English ivy is the finest vine where the winters are mild. No- tice the rootlets. But it has two disadvantages. It is slow to establish itself, the shoots sometimes dying in the first
. The beginner's garden book; a textbook for the upper grammar grades. Gardening. VINES 223 taller year by year, until their stems are often, at the base, bigger than a man's arm. Nine of them are worth any one's growing. Most famous is the English ivy. This climbs by clinging rootlets, and will cover almost any building in the course of time. Its close, dark green foliage is beautiful and Fig. 118. — English ivy is the finest vine where the winters are mild. No- tice the rootlets. But it has two disadvantages. It is slow to establish itself, the shoots sometimes dying in the first year or two, unless protected from the winter's sun. And it is not truly hardy much north of New York City. Euonymus radicans, or spindle vine, cannot really pretend to take the place of ivy except in one particular. It is ever- green. Either of these two vines is green, and therefore very beautiful, all winter. But the euonymus does not grow. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original French, Allen, 1870-1946. New York, The Macmillan Co.
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