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Dutchman's Pipe 



(Aristolochia sipho] 



This unique vine has immense heart-shaped 

 leaves about 10 inches in diameter. It is suitable for 

 porches, pergolas, or to clamber over stumps. It is 

 slow the first two years, but ultimately will cover 

 the side of a house. The flowers are inconspicuous, 

 and so shaped as to justify its name. 



Euonymus 



Euonymus radicans. This vine is but little 

 known, but when it is we predict for it a wide 

 popularity. Of course, English Ivy has the ad- 

 vantage with its literary, ecclesiastic and art 

 associations, but the Euonymus has the advan- 

 tage of hardiness in our climate, especially from 

 New York northward, and toward the interior. 

 At Westbury there is a Euonymus radicans on a 

 Locust tree where it is about 30 feet high, sending 

 out long branches, 4 feet long, after the manner 

 of the English Ivy and Poison Ivy. The leaves 

 are permanently evergreen and are of dark color 

 and glossy surface. It has no serious enemies and 

 will grow freely on brick, stone, or even on painted 

 boards. It will carpet the ground with green and 

 grow upward in points about 2 feet. It can be 

 rapidly multiplied as it takes root when layered. 



E. radicans, var. Carriere. This form has larger 

 elliptical leaves and is more shrub-like in growth. 



E. radicans, Round-leaved Form. This is very 

 distinct in appearance, with thick, round, light 

 green leaves and abundant red berries. It will 

 clamber over rocks and low walls and can be 

 used at the foundation of a house or edge of 

 groups of broad-leaved, evergreens. 



Honeysuckle Lonicera 



Honeyscukles are a large genus, containing some 

 valuable shrubs, described on page 58, and a num- 

 ber of useful vines. They are not particular as to 

 soil or moisture and can be satisfactorily used for 

 naturalizing along the borders of woodland, on 

 fences, as well as on porches, windmill towers and 

 pergolas. 



Japanese. Lonicera Japonica. This is the most 

 popular and widely known Honeysuckle. To 

 show its appreciation of our climate it has run 

 wild along roadsides and in the woods where its 

 evergreen foliage brightens the winter landscape. 

 It will make a hedge equal to the Privet, needing, 

 of course, a wire fence to support it. It blooms 

 abundantly in June, with deliciously fragrant 

 blossoms, and then again in late autumn. It is 

 called Hall's Honeysuckle from the missionary 

 who first introduced it with the Hall's Magnolia 

 and several other Japanese plants. He realized 

 the climate similarity, but had difficulty to find 

 a nurseryman to even pay the freight on his 

 shipment. We can supply rooted layers at very 

 low rates for planting on steep banks to hold 

 them from washing. 



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

 the Japanese excepting that the leaves are 

 purple beneath and that it does not readily take 

 root from layers and spread in large mats where 

 planted, and it does not spread from seeds. It is 

 a handsome evergreen vine, with ornamental, 

 shining black berries. We have propagated a 



The graceful sprays and tendrils of our native Woodbine, 

 or Virginia Creeper, are but little appreciated. It can be used 

 to decorate tree trunks, pergolas, tennis back-stops, festoon 

 shrubs or hold sand-dunes, (See page 76.) 



Honeysuckle, Chinese, continued 



large quantity which we offer at low rates, 

 presenting an opportunity to make a good land- 

 scape effect. 



Coral Trumpet. L. sempervirens. Conspicuous 

 for its long, red trumpet-shaped flowers. It is a 

 handsome vine, occasionally wild on Long Island, 

 in the Cedars or along fences. It can be appro- 

 priately planted in such situations, or on pergolas. 



Heckrotti. This is a low climber, blooming in June, 

 and again in October, November and December. 

 It may be planted under or with other vines 

 merely for its unusual flowering period. 



Ivy 



English. Hedera helix. There are many beautiful 

 old plants of English Ivy on Long Island. Many 

 will remember how the severe winter of 1903-04 

 killed back their favorite Ivy. Notwithstanding 

 such occasional disasters, it is worthy of extensive 

 planting. Like other broad-leaved evergreens, it 

 likes best partial shade in the winter, partial 

 shelter from severe drying winds and mulching 

 to keep out the frost. These conditions can be 

 met on the north side of the house or in groves 

 of trees. The problem of making more attractive 

 our rather monotonous winter woodland may be 

 solved in part by using the English Ivy, both as 

 a carpet on the ground and to run up the tree 



