Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1916 — Be Sure to Plant Some Vines. [ARTICLE]

Be Sure to Plant Some Vines.

Morning glories, cypress vines, sweetpeas, gourds, nasturtiums, Japanese hops, wild cucumber, hyacinth bean are amonfe; our most desirable annual climbers. Seeds of them do not cost much, and a package of one or the other will yield shade, beauty and grace. The sides of a steep terrace or bank may be transformed Into a thing of beauty by planting trailers along its top. Rosa Wichuraiana, the memorial rose, and its hybrids, are desirable for this purpose, It produces a profusion of long wreaths of small, thick-ly-set leaves, that look as though they were varnished. In June It literally covers Itself with large, white single roses. The Virginia creeper, honeysuckle, nasturtiums and moon vines are trailers rather than climbers. Of garden plants the sweet potato and the dewberry are genteel enough to be grown as trailers. They give edibles instead of flowers.