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Show VINE8 MAKE PORCH A BOWER. Easy to Have Veranda a Cool and Beautiful Retreat. Every possessor of a houso with a porch, whether In city, suburb or country, coun-try, should rcnllzo tho opportunity he has, with tho help of nature, to make it a delicious and beautiful, cool, green, shady retreat In summer. In winter It matters littlo what It Ib. Vines will transform any porch into a bower. To have vigorous vines plenty of rich soil is needed, and It Is best to lnsuro this by adding plenty of cow manuro or bono meal to make It rich. Good drainage, rs in any flower garden, 1b also osscntlal. In the woods many wild vines may be found. Thcro are tho Dutchman's pipe, tho wild grape, the moon seed vine, tho trumpet vino and others. Tho wild grape vino Is especially useful use-ful nnd easily obtained. Its luxuriant foliage, rapid growth and delightful fragrnnco make it useful for summer houses and similar structures. The trumpet vino with Its scarlet orango Bowers is very easily grown, not ut all sensitive to rough treatment. It Is found in many parts of tho country wild. These 'vines may all bo obtained ob-tained also from dealers. Tho silk vino Is very fine, with dark green, luxuriant foliage of neat habit. It belongs to tho milk weed family of plants and derives Its name from the silky contents' of its seed podB. It Is excellent for the veranda and Is used to cover many famous old ruins. A number of the clematises arc well worthy of a place on, the most beautiful beauti-ful verandas, especially tho flowering varlotlea such ns Clematis Jackmannl, which has purple flowers, nnd Clematis Cle-matis Henryl, which has neat whlto flowers, both producing a mass of rich color when In bloom. |