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Purchasers are often at fault in this matter. Nursery- 

 men have to buy and pay for the material packing, as mats, 

 straw, yarn, moss, and besides, the labor of packing, when 

 laeM, done, is very great. It is, therefore, not unreasonable 

 that a charge be made ; but some people, rather than pay 

 twenty-five or fifty cents for packing fifty trees, would 

 expose themselves to the risk of losing all. Purchasers 

 should invariably charge the nurseryman to whom they 

 send their orders, to pack in the beat manner. Better pay 

 one or even two cents per tree for packing, than loose it or 

 injure it so much as to make it almost worthless. 



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ttalooiiy, <Rardeiiiit^ and riiiiihiii<> Vines. 



(By Hy. T. WiMJAMH.) 



What delicate taste and suggestive beauty .seem gathered 

 up in the association of Climbing Vines. 



Helps to Home Adornment we have often called them, 

 and the fairy fingers who twine them around their parlor 

 windows, or along the piazza, or on the rustic trellis before 

 the cottage door, will tell you how well they appreciate 

 their value in making home so pleasant. 



Climbing Vines afford us an opportunity of clothing not 

 the outside of the window alone, but its inside also, with 

 verdure and decorations of greenery. 



Ideas of refinement, taste and beauty, are invariably sug- 

 gested by the presence of Climbing Vines. 



Let the corners of our houses, or the edges of our win- 

 dows, be hid under the delicate foliage or brilliLint flowers, 

 and their natural festoons of mingled verdure and bloom 

 will soften the most gloomy surroundings. 



In the following list of vines you wil lind the most effec- 

 tive means of decoration. Mo.st of these hardy garden fa- 

 vorites will grow from 30 to 50 feet in a season. 



The Honeysuckle.— Its a vine for covering arbors, pil- 

 lars, trellises, balconies, &c. ; it is unsurpassed. 



The "Wistaria has the merit of permanency. Its stems 

 do not die down yearly, but remain and grow even more 

 luxuriant and profuse in bloom year after year. Flowers 

 light blue color, and bloom almost constantly daring the 

 summer months. 



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