I need scarcely add that the Ivy is so completely hardy that it will grow in any aspect and in any soil; that its flowers are the staple food of bees in the late autumn; and that all the varieties grow easily from cuttings at almost any time of the year.
FOOTNOTES:
[130:1] Sheep feeding on Ivy—
"My sheep have Honeysuckle bloom for pasture; Ivy grows
In multitudes around them, and blossoms like the Rose."
Theocritus, Idyll v. (Calverley).
"The Ivy-mesh
Shading the Ethiop berries."—Keats, Endymion.