July 10—It is a most interesting study to watch the Trumpet Vine attaching itself to dry walls and posts. Plants are rather slow in becoming established, but once they have become settled in new quarters, it does not take them long to grow into large specimens. Aerial roots grow from nodes all along the stems and they attach themselves very securely to any support. It is not easy fo detach a young branch during its growing period, but, as is generally the case with climbers, older branches are liable to become loose: they are not so brittle as the Virginian creeper, but they will break if handled roughly, The Trumpet Vine has had more than its share of names and it will be found under Tecoma, Bignonia and also Campsis in the various gardening books. If is a beautiful climb ber and well worth a place in every garden; it flowers so profusely. We appear to have two varieties in flower here at the present time, one being much more brilliantly coloured than the other. The Trumpet Vine never looks better than. when covering an old post, its flowering branches hang so gracefully, the foliage is very attractive and the orange-coloured flowers do much to brighten up our gardens. The black. berry, that prickly inhabitant of English hedges, is having a good season this year: there appear to be excellent crops in those gardens where this berry is cultivated and quite good results in places where the plants are growing wild. Nature is most accommodating as far as berried fruit is concerned! We had crops of strawberries followed by the variotis varieties of raspberries, loganberries, youngberries, Boysenberries and now blackberries. If they all bore fruit at the same time. we should not appreciate them so much. Perhaps the blackberry is not such a favourite as the others mentioned: it may be foo common; but we feel that the home-grown produce being offered at $2 per pound in the country these days is not too expensive considering the prices being asked for most things.
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