Vitis vinifera (Ornamental Grape) "Two foliage plants which you don't often see, and yet which are very lovely, are the purple-leaved vine Vitis vinifera purpurea with its deeply lobed leaves, and the evergreen virginian creeper Ampelopsis sempervirens. My purple vine has never yet borne fruit, but a friend has one that was a picture this summer." "Letters to Garden Lovers", Australian Home Beautiful, April 1941.