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If a house or fence is at the back, flowering vines like the _Clematis paniculata_, or _C. flammula_, or any annual flowering vine, may be used here and there.
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Clematis _flammula_, a summer-blooming relative of great value both for its beauty and because it is a native, it is likely to die pretty nearly to the ground in winter, but, because of rapid growth, this is not much of an objection.
Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover 1882
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Asparagus was called Speerage, and the young shoots might have been used for the purpose, but I have never heard of such a use; Ranunculus flammula was called Spearwort, from its lanceolate leaves, and so (according to Cockayne) was Carex acuta, still called
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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It is chiefly the sweet small acorns of the Quercus phillos, Quercus aquatica, Quercus sempervirens, Quercus flammula, and others, which induce these birds to migrate in the autumn to those Southern regions; where they spend their days agreeably, and feast luxuriously, during the rigour of the colds in the North, whither they return at the approach of summer to breed.
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