Potato Vine

A half-finished mat, with its bundle of rags put carefully aside; the thirsty potato-vine on the fire-escape, which reached appealingly from its soap-box toward the window, as if in wondering search for the hands that had tended it so faithfully, —bore silent testimony that Mrs. Ben Wah’s work-day was over at last. ❋ Unknown (1902)

"Not when mistaken for potato-vine," she answered, yet her eyes were smiling at him. ❋ Charles King (1888)

So promptly as to inspire the belief that she suspected something was on foot when you -- when I---- By the way, what became of that sprig of potato-vine, or chickweed, or something, that was on top of the frame? ❋ Charles King (1888)

A half-finished mat, with its bundle of rags put carefully aside; the thirsty potato-vine on the fire-escape, which reached appealingly from its soap-box toward the window, as if in wondering search for the hands that had tended it so faithfully, -- bore silent testimony that Mrs. Ben Wah's work-day was over at last. ❋ Unknown (1881)

"I heard of a boy once who found a penny in the field, right under a potato-vine," said Walter. ❋ Horatio Alger (1865)

The first brood of larvæ may be found on the potato-vine toward the latter end of June, and the second in August. ❋ D. A. Compton (1846)