Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — The Ivy on the Wall. [ARTICLE]

The Ivy on the Wall.

The growth of ivy on the walls of houses renders the walls entirely free from damp, the ivy extracting every particle of moisture from wood, brick or stones for its own sustenance by menns of its tiny roots, which work their way into the hardest stone. The overlapping leaves of the ivy conduct water falling upon them from point to point until it reaches the ground, without allowing the walls to receive any moisture whatever from the beating rain.