Vines 



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ISAAC HICKS & SON 



Chinese Wistaria on a porch. It is far more beautiful when clambering over a tree. (See opposite page-.) 



HONEYSUCKLE,, continued 



Japanese. L. Japonica. Hall's Honeysuckle. 

 Leaves dark green, and are held throughout most 

 of the winter. The fragrant white and yellow flow- 

 ers appear in early summer and again in autumn. 

 It is a strong, rapid grower, and makes a most 

 satisfactory vine for porch, pergola, hedge or 

 ground cover. For covering rough banks along 

 the roadside, sandy bluffs, stumps and rocks, or 

 for holding up embankments, it has no equal. 

 Trained to a slight wire fence and trimmed, it 

 thickens up its masses of rich foliage and forms a 

 beautiful hedge. We offer it at low rates per 

 thousand for these purposes. We also offer long 

 vines for immediately covering walls or porches. 



Golden. L. Japonica, var. aurea reticulata. A 

 striking object, with its leaves brilliantly marked 

 with yellow and red. 



Chinese. L. Japonica, var. Chinensis. Similar to 

 the Japanese, with dark leaves, purple beneath. 



Coral Trumpet. L- sempervirens. A climber, with 

 long, tubular scarlet flowers during the summer. 



L. Heckrotti. A low climber that is chiefly valuable 

 from the profusion with which it flowers in 

 October, and if in a sheltered place, it affords the 

 rare opportunity of gathering flowers in Novem- 

 ber and December. 



IVY 



English. Hedera Helix. English Ivy is the ideal 

 evergreen vine for clinging to stone and brick 

 walls when the soil and climatic conditions are 

 congenial, as in England. There are beautiful 

 plants of it on Long Island, growing 50 feet high 

 and sending out branches 12 feet wide, where 

 protected from severe cold and brilliant winter 

 sunshine. It makes a rich, dark border to gar- 

 den paths. Its shade-enduring properties make 

 it valuable for covering the ground and trunks of 

 trees in woodland borders. 



Japanese, or Boston. Ampelopsis tricuspidala ; 

 syn., A. Veitchii. The most popular of the 

 clinging vines. It maintains its glossy and 

 healthy foliage even in the dust and smoke of 

 large cities, and thrives where there is apparently 

 little soil to feed upon. It will cling to stone, 

 brick and wood, but it will not twine upon wires 

 or trellises. The brilliant autumn coloring is one 

 of its attractive features. (See page 59.) 



JESSAMINE. Jasminum nudiflorum 



As grown here at its northern limit, this is more 

 properly a shrub to be planted in a warm and pro- 

 tected corner of the house, where it will bloom in 

 earliest spring. It will frequently open its blossoms 

 on a sunny day in winter. The graceful sprays of 

 yellow flowers closely resemble the Forsythia. 



KUDSU VINE, 



"Dolichos Japonicus ; syn., Pueraria Thunbergiana 



A vine exceeding all others in rapidity of growth, 

 sometimes reaching 40 feet in height in a season. 

 It dies back to about 10 feet from the ground every 

 winter in this latitude. Useful for quickly cover- 

 ing unsightly objects. 



ROSES, CLIMBING 



(See, also, Roses) 



Roses should not be omitted from any general 

 problem requiring the use of vines. Rosa Sctigera 

 and some of the new varieties, such as \Vichuraiana, 

 or Memorial Rose, and its hybrids are particularly 

 valuable because of their persistence, healthy foli- 

 age and rapid growth. 



TRUMPET CREEPER. Tecoma 



T. radicans ; syn., Bignonia radicans. Trumpet Vine. 

 In late summer this vine is decorative with its clus- 

 ters of orange-crimson trumpets 4 or 5 inches long. 

 It clings closely to walls and trees, sometimes hav- 

 ing a trunk 8 inches in diameter, and reaching to 

 the top of locust trees 75 feet high. The foliage 

 is glossy and healthy in all situations. We offer 

 it in quantity for decorating fences, locust groves 

 and woodland borders. 



T. grandiflora ; syn., B. Chinensis. Chinese Trumpet 

 Creeper. A species not so hardy as the last, but 

 it will become established with slight protection. 

 It may be grown on a low post or stake in the 

 shrubbery, where it is very decorative with its 

 wide scarlet trumpets. It is much more showy 

 than the last and continues blooming later in the 

 summer. It is appropriately planted by fences 

 and tree-trunks. 



