The Bittersweet vine, Celastrus scandens for the North and Celastrus angulatus or C. hypoleucus in the South, can be kept within bounds easily and will give good results. The Northern Bittersweet makes a most spectacular presentation each autumn of masses of orange-colored pods. By doing your pruning each autumn, you will be able to use the cut pods indoors for bouquets each winter.

The Silver Lace-vine, sometimes called the Chinese Fleece-vine, is a fast-growing cumber. It will clothe the trellis each year with its largish leaves and a wealth of greenish-white flowers in clusters which do not belie either the lace or the fleece of its names. Cut back sharply each autumn or each spring, it will come back strongly if fed well.

For the northern sides of buildings or shady spots elsewhere, ivy can be trained over a trellis if a bit of patience is exercised. Tie it to the frame of the trellis until its rootlets attach, or until it is strong enough to support itself. Rough wood trellises will allow these rootlets to attach more readily than will well-planed wood.

Climbing Honeysuckle is another possible vine to use, but check first with local plantsmen to see how it performs in your area. Some varieties in certain places become ramping cumbers, which makes them unsuitable for small trellises, charming though the vine is.

A vine which is suitable for a trellis, whether it may be a fence, a roofed-over arbor, or even a pergola kind of trellis, is the Grape. There is something rather pleasant about having one's food crop climbing a trellis beside one's outdoor room. It gives beauty of leaf all summer and makes a thick roof if allowed to climb on a shelter from the trellis, its ripening grapes giving off a perfume from each cluster. I remember a luncheon al fresco a few years ago in Italy beneath a pergola burdened with grapes, with the table laid beside a fence on which grapes also grew. It was very convenient to pick one's dessert without moving from one's seat. But in America we must give a bit of thought to pests for which we must spray in many areas. This will discolor a painted trellis and may contaminate chairs and tables if it contains poisonous substances. Be sure to consider this before planting grapes.