Show VINES MAKE PORCH A BOWER easy to have veranda a cool and beamut ful retreat every possessor of a house with a porch whether in city suburb or coun try should realize the opportunity he has with the help of nature to make it a delicious and beautiful cool green shady retreat in summer in winter it matters little what it is vines will transform any porch into a bower to have vigorous vines plenty of rich soil is needed and it Is best to insure this by adding plenty of cow manure or bone meal to make it rich good drainage as in any flower gaiden is also essential in the woods many wild vines may be found there are the dutchman s pipe the wild grape the moon seed vire the trumpet vine and others the wild grape vim is especially use tul and easily obtained its luxuriant foliage lapid growth and delightful fragrance make it useful for summer houses and similar structures the trumpet vine with its scarlet orange flowers is very easily grown not at all sensitive to rough treatment it Is found in many parts of the country wild these vines may all be ob bained also from dealers the silk vine is very fine with dark green luxuriant foliage of neat habit it belongs to the milk weed family of plants and derives its name from the silky contents of its seed pods it is excellent tor the veranda and is used to cover many famous old ruins A number of the clematises are well worthy of a place on the most tul verandas especially the flowering varieties such as clematis Jackman nl which has purple flowers and cle matis which has neat white flowers both producing a mass of rich color when in bloom |