HARDY CLIMBERS. 



ARISTOLOCHIA SIPHO. 



The Climbers are invaluable to the gardener. They furnish the drapery of the garden, and 

 transform the most unsightly stump and fence into objects of beauty. The Annual and Tender 

 Climbers are a reserve force, ready at the last minute to do their work. The Hardy Climber*, 



once planted, remain and get better 

 every season. We can notice only 

 a few of the best. 



AMPELOPSIS QUINQUEFOI.IA, or 

 VIRGINIA CREEPER, and some- 

 times called American Ivy and 

 Woodbine, is of rapid growth, will 

 go to the top of any building, and 

 in the autumn its foliage is of the 

 most elegant crimson. 



AMPELOPSIS VEITCHII, from Ja- 

 pan. The foliage is small, and the whole plant slender. 

 It climbs closely to the smoothest surface, but suffers some- 

 times in the winter. 



AKEBIA QUINATA, a singular Japanese Climber, with small, 

 pretty foliage, and small 

 chocolate brown flowers ; 

 a rapid grower. 



ARISTOLOCHIA SIPHO, 

 or DUTCHMAN'S PIPE, is 

 a rapid growing Hardy 

 Climber, with very large 

 leaves in abundance, com- 

 pletely covering any wall 

 or trellis to 



TRUMPET VINK. which it may 



be attached. It is perfectly hardy everywhere. 



BlGNONIA RADICANS, or TRUMPET CREEPER, 



is a very strong and rapid grower, with clusters 

 of large, trumpet-shaped, orange-scarlet flowers. i 

 CELASTRUS SCANDENS, or CLIMBING BITTER 

 SWEET, is another beautiful native Climber. 



LONICERA, HONEYSUCKLE. Halleana, an evergreen 

 variety from Japan. The flowers are white, changing to yel- 

 low ; quite fragrant. 



Japan Gold-veined. Foliage small, and beautifully 

 netted with creamy yellow ; flowers small, white and sweet. 



Monthly Fragrant, or Dutch ; the flowers of this variety 

 are red and pale yellow ; it blooms through the whole 

 summer. 



Scarlet Trumpet is monthly, and evergreen, or nearly so ; 

 flowers two inches in length, scarlet outside and yellow in. 



CLEMATIS FLAMMULA, European Sweet, a very sweet- 

 scented variety, but flowers small and white. 



Virginiana, the common Virgin's Bower, a native climber, 

 with clusters of small white flowers ; fruit with feathery tails. 



~"^ Jackmanii. This is one of the new English hybrids that 



CLEMATIS JACKMANII. are attrac ting so much attention in all parts of the world. 



WISTARIA SINENSIS, Chinese Wistaria, is a rapid, strong grower, and when once well estab- 

 lished will grow twenty feet in a season. The flowers are in long racemes, and light purple. 



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