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Vines IVift Ornamental Foliage Deservedly Popular
Two-Purpose Vines That Add Greatly to the Appearance of Walls and Fences Are Not( Used ras Much as
Conditions Warrant; Beautiful Effects Are Easily Attained Where Hants and Shrubs Fail toGive
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FOLIAGE vines are especially
adapted for stone or brick build
ings, as they look more at home
there than flowering ones. They
are also valuable for working In
with flowering vines having poor foli
age, and no .other class of vine gives
such good autumn colors. Foliage vines
can be pruned at any time of the
year, but spring is the better time for
transplanting. They should have a
good, rich soil if they are to produce a
luxuriant growth. Hardy vines which
bear ornamental fruit are almost as
good as evergreens for winter effect
' .All the woody, ornamental, fruiting
vines flower on new wood and should,
therefore, be pruned moderately In
early spring. That is also the best
season for transplanting them.
Need Llttls Attention.
Tor Its leaves, which turn to the
most enchanting shades in fall, and for
Its extreme hardiness and durability in
large cities, the ampelopals -is the best
of all foliage vines. AH kinds of im
pelopsis are. thrifty growers, and, . If
properly planted require little, If any,
attention. Being eelf-cllrigers, they are
among the very best vines for stone
or brick buildings, sticking with great
tenacity. They will grow well in full
sunlight, but a semi-shade, or even a
northern exposure, brings out. the best
colors In autumn. Ampelopsls requires
no pruning other than cutting away
from windows and doors.
Absolutely hardy and with beautiful
autumn foliage Is the Boston, or Jap
anese, ivy. In large cities, where the
dirt and amok are almost Invariably
very harmful to plant life, this vine
thrives remarkably well. The fall color
ing Is enchanting, shifting from green
to the various shades of yellow, orange
yellow, orange-crimson, and crimson.
Borne leaves are even blotched with
pure white.
This vine clings by means of discs,
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home; climbing rose, growing at Hood street home..
lawn, Boston Ivy on Portland apartment house. . .
and is a very vigorous grower. It has
been found growing on church spires
over 100 feet In the air, and still as
cendlngs The profusion of' small, blue
black' berries adds to-Its attractiveness
in lbs falL
Virginia Croepsr Useful.
For use on frame buildings, to which
It clings with long straggling . shoots
hanging down In great festoons, the
Virginia creeper Is valuable. In the fall,
the berries, always freely produced, are
very attractive. The vine holds better
if a little poultry wire is stretched, over
the coject to be covered, In which case
the disc-bearing tendrils cling to the
support. If this help be given, the vine
can also be used on stone or brick
buildings. It does not color so vividly
In the fall as the Boston ivy, although
the foliage assumes a beautiful shade
of red.
There are numerous good varieties
of this vine, differing more or less in
minor - points. It is the loose,' strag
gling growth of the Virginia creeper
which to most persons is so pleasing.
A good variety for planting beside a
green leaved vine, where the glaucous
foliage stands out very prominently, is
var. murorum. With small leaves and
especially valuable when a good fall
color la desired, Is var. Engelmannl, a
new variety. A variety with very shiny
leaves, especially adapted for planting
on 'dark colored buildings, which bring
out tha contrast is var. latlfolla. The
best autumn varieties of this species,
with foliage remarkable for their color,
approaching very closely to the Boston
Ivy, are vars. Graebneri and vltacea.
Both bear an abundance of blue-black
berries, which stay on the vine most of
the winter. For damp, shady locations,
where the best colors are, brought out in
the fall, when its clusters of berries of
a peculiar bluish tint are also very at
tractive, is A. heterophylla, a very vig.
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In; sunny , positions, 'the small, dark
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ornamental. The peculiar brownish
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also attractive and very fragrant When
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not seen to advantage; but on an up
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will attain a height of 60 feet It does
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How to Grow Vegetables. .Allen French ...$1.75
How to Make a Vegetable Garden 2.00
The Farm, and Garden
Rule Book-. . ....... L. H. Bailey ... 2.00'
Garden Making
H.
A Woman's Hardy Gar
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Success in Market Gar
dening Xhe Pruning Book
The Garden Book .......
Helena
H. Rawson .
L. H. Bailey
Jacob Biggie
The Orchard 'and Fruit:
Garden , E. P.
The Nursery Book..,.;..L. H.
The Forcing Book. L. H.
The Practical Garden
Book ,; .....L. H.
The Principles of Vege-
table Gardening L. H.
The Spraying of Plants... E. G.
The Principles of Fruit- '
growing ,............,.X. H. Bailey .,
Fruit ' Harvesting, Storing
and Marketing ...... F.-H. Waugh ..
.Bush Fruits ............ ..F. W. Card,.
American Apple Orchard. J?. A. Waugh ,
Apple Growing in the Pacific Northwest.
Farm Management ...... F. W.
First Book of Farming. . , Chas.
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best in a good, sunny location and a
rather light solL The narrower leaves
of the variety anruBtlfolla are pre
ferred by many people; In other particu
lars the plants are Identical.
The bittersweet deserves to be cul
tivated more generally. It Is especially
good' In semi-shade. Its foliage being
remarkably pretty, with the body of the
leaf dark green, and the rim and outer
edge tinted brilliant scarlet . The lit
tle clusters of white and black centered
blossoms are so hidden, by the foliage
that you must get close to the vine in
order to see them. After the foliage
has fallen, the vine Is one mass of curi
ous little scarlet . berries, with a re-
flexed outet covering of orange yellow.
Matrimony Vine foi Bunny Spots.
An ornamental fruited vine for ex
tremely sunny situations, but one use
less in the shade (where It is always
covered with mildew) is the matrimony
vine. The small red berries are pro
ducect-In - abundancffalongthe " long,
thin, drooping,' lateral branches. It is
a twiner, but a poor one and needs as
sistance. . It flowers on new wood and
should be pruned close. In early, spring.
It can be transplanted in spring or fall.
or young plants can be raised by layer
ing. . . ' , ,
An annual vine especially fine for
coverlnar fences. Is the Kourd. In tha
' fall, ater the leaves are gone, the fruit
i decldedl y-ornamental.--The - foliage
is a good shade of green and the' vine
grows with astonishing rapidity. An
other good trait is that It does . not
seem to show the effects of either ex
cessively dry or wet weatller,' but keeps
growing until checked by.frqst The
gourd climbs by tendrils and can ascend
almost any- kind of aajpen work -fence;
In sunny locations it attains a height
of 10 to 12 feet The seed should be
sown in the greenhouse in March, or
out of doors in April.
Plants for Cnildrsn.
If you wish to furnish the children
with some amusement, grow the squirt
ing cucumber (Ecballlum Elaterium).
This vine, throws its seeds at a person
upon the very slightest . touch. ..la
foliage and general makeup It greatly
resembles the- cucumber. Usually it is
treated as an annual and trained to a
fence. Another great favorite with
children is the wild cucumber, which
has prickly. Inflated vessels. It Is also
useful as a quick screen, but its leaves
turn brown very early. The vine is an
annual. . .
A Garden of Sweet Odors.
. . Fragrant flowers are the special Joy
of many gardeners, and such a one
never fails to, grow mignonette, ver
benas, stocks, sweet alyssum, sweet
peas, Illy of the' valley, and pinks. Add
to this list nicotians, or tobacco plant,
and we have the making of a garden th,e
odor of which will perfume all the sur
rounding country. Mignonette, stocks,
sweet alyssum and nicotians may be
started indoors and transplanted to the
garden, thereby insuring earlier blos
soms, if one cares to take that trouble.
Berries Real Delicacy.
Tha woman who does not raise her
own strawberries, 'is losing a lot of
pleasure,fot4"ey grow aorapldly and
so 10xurlanTl,rt)a' IP thoyothwaghV to
be allowed to lle were a grand privi
lege, and It is rare sport to watch
them. To do their best- they should
be planted 16 Inches apart in the row.
and the rows should be 30 inches apart.
By this manner, of planting, they can be
hoed between the plants and It is easier
to keep off the runners, which must be
kept off with religious care. If a person
would have big berries, and a lot of
them.
, Every garden lover should join in tha
movement for more beautiful r pad sides.
Gather wild flowers seeds or plants
and start them along neglected high
ways, where they will make many a
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Dry Farming ...John A. Widtsoe 1.50
Three Acres and Liberty. .Bolton Hall 75
The New Earth W. S. Harwood. 1.75
The Farmstead , .... . ... ,1. P. Roberts.... 1.50
The Farmers' Business
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The Fertility of the Land.. I. P. Roberts ... 1.50
Soils E. W, Hilgard ..4.00
Soils.......: , F. H. King ..... 1.50
Bailey 1.50
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How to Choose
Feeding of Animals. . .. . . . W. H. Jordan . . .
Diseases of Animals r; : ;".N.-3.1iIayOTr
The Horse ..I. P. Roberts
The, Principles of Agricuf-- -i
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Bailey ... 1.50
Bailey . . . 1.2S
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Bailey ... 1.50
Lodeman.. 1.25
Roses, and How
Roses at Portland and
How to Grow Them. ...F. V. Holmah .
Wild Flowers as They r ,
Grow .............. ....G. C. Nuttall ..
The Flower Garden Ida D. Bennett.
Garden Planning ........ W. S. Rogers ..
Our Garden Flowers .... H, Keeler
How to Make a Flower Garden .........
Beautiful Gardens W. P. Wright .
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MORNING, MARCH 10,
Fruit an Essential
Americans Consume Fruit Free
ly and Ilave Turned .to Home
Production for Fresh Xrtlcle
I
HILE both the home garden and
the orchard . are essential to
the good of the community,
they bear Very different rela
tions to the fruit Interests of
the country as a whole. The home Ear
den is always the forerunner of com-
merclal development and even In those
localities where climatic and soil condi
tions are adverse to conducting such In
dustries on an extensive scale the home
fruit garden of the enthusiastle ama
teur is certain to be found. ,
AH the success attained by the fruit
Interests of the United States has
grown out of the persevering efforts of
a few men whose home fruit gardens
served not only as testing stations for
determining the fitness of given sorts
for new and untried . localities, but
they were the propagating grounds from
which sorts of the highest quality and
greatest commercial value originated.
.1 The lnhabltanUofthi.-xountry -are
notably a fruit loving and frui,t eating
people. Notwithstanding this, however,
fruit culture has grown to be classed
among the specialties, and few persons
who 'consume frUit are actual growers.
The possibilities In fruit culture upon
restricted areas ' have been generally
overjo0kediwith.the resultlhat many
persons who own a city lot, a suburban
home, or even a farm, now look upon
fruit as a luxury, -
miUilng Waste land.
This can all be changed, and much of
the land which is now practically waste
and entirely unremunerative can be
made to produce fruits in sufficient
quantity to give them a regular place
upon the family bill, of fare and at
the same time add greatly to the at
tractiveness of the table and healthful
nesa of the diet. - The home production
of fruit stimulates, an Interest In and
a love for natural objects which can
only be acquired by that familiarity
with them which comes through their
culture. The cultivation of fruits
teaches discrimination. A grower Is a
much more Intelligent buyer than one
who has not had the advantages of
tasting the better dessert sorts as they
come from the tree.
If every purchaser was a good Judge
of: the different kinds of fruits," the
demand for fruits of high quality, to
produce which is the ambition of every
amateur," as well as of every profes
sional ' fruit grower, would become a
reality. But until some means of teach
ing the differences in the quality of
fruits can be devised the general public
will continue to buy according to the
eye rather than the palate. The encour
agement of the cultivation of fine fruits,
In the home garden will do much toward
teaching buywa-tM discriminations -Healthful
Enrols. -
Besides Increasing the fruit supply
and cultivating a taste for quality, the
maintenance of a fruit garden brings
pleasure and healthful employment, and
as one's interest In growing plants in
creases, this employment... instead . of
proving a hardship, will become a source
of "pleasure. The possession of a tree
which one himself has planted and
reared to fruit production carries an
added Interest In its product, as well
as in the operation by which it was se
cured. Tha unfolding of the leaf, the expos
ure of the blossom buds, the develop
ment of the flowers, and the formation
of 1toe fruit are all processes which
measure the skill of the cultivator, and
when the crowning result of all these
natural functions has been attained In a
crop of perfect fruit, the man under
whose care these results have been
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achieved will himself have been made
hnrpler and better.
To those familiar with the facilities
at command for the culture of fruit and
the general interest in the subject, the
remarkable absence of successful fruit
gardens about city, suburban, and coun
try residences can.be explained only on
the ground that those who would be
most likely to give attention to their
care aind maintenance nave no object les
sons or literature at hand to guljle them
in laying out such gardens.
Workfor Enttrs Bummer.
In order to prove a source of con
stant pleasure and gratification a fruit
plantation must claim the attention of
is owner f rom arly spring to late
autumn; its products, too, must be so
planned as to cover the greatest possi
ble "portion of the seasons between
frosts. The problem presented Involves
a succession of fruits, from earliest to
latest, as well as a combination of
light loving and shade enduring plants.
The intensive culture and the' liberal
reeding to be given demand that all
plants be types which bear early and
heavily in proportion to their stse. The
question of longevity Is of no moment:
Immediate fruit production Is the. ob
ject . .
With the growth of the commercial
fruit Interests of the United States the
home fruit garden has been lost sight
of. Only a few years ago the owners
of, home gardens not only led In the
production of fruits, but were our
authorities as to how and where to
grow them. Today these gardens, while
no less numerous or important, are
overshadowed by the orchards where
fruit Is grown -forcommerclal pur
poses, .
Number of Plant Required.
The number of plants required for
an acre, at any given distance apart
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may be ascertained by dividing the
number of square feet in an acre (43
560) by the number of square feet glvea
to each plant, which Is obtained by mul
tiplying the distance between the rowis
by the distance between the plants. Thus
pear trees S5 feet apart each way take
625 square feet each, or 70 to the acre.
Loganberries planied In rows 8 feet
apart. 5 feet In the row, take 40 square
feet to the plant, or 1090 plants to the
acre.
. Prone Rose Bushes Severely.
Rose bushes .need- severe pr-l
back. To be sura, some sorts rWre
more than others, , but with tk exeap--tlon
of climbers, vigorous cutting back
each spring will result in strong shoots,
which will produce fine crops of flow
ers. The first surgical operation should
be. performed when the plants go Into
the ground. . -
Saving Water and Labor.
An excellent way to economise labor
In watering plants Is to sink a tomato
can Into the ground at the base of
each' plant, having first punched the
bottom full of holes. The water poured
Into the can will reach the roots ' di
rectly and not be wasted. Weak man
ure water may be given this way to
excellent advantage, If the plant needs
feeding. - . ','..,.'
Transplanting Plants.
Just after a rain Is a poor time to
sow seeds, It Is better to wait until
the ground can be raked and harrowed
easily. When transplanting Is to be
dona, first wet the ground thoroughly.
Then 1t will be possible to take a good
ball of eartt) with the plant, Sand the
roots will not suffer. .
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