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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



September, 1915 



The Best Evergreen Vine 



For America 



T 



HE accompanying picture gives but a 

 faint hint of the five-fold glories of the 

 evergreen bittersweet (Euonymus Jap- 

 onicus vegetus). In the first place, it is ever- 

 green, and therefore has an obvious advan- 

 tage over deciduous vines in being beautiful 

 365 days of the year instead of two weeks or 

 seven months. 



Secondly, it is very accommodating as to 

 soils, climate, exposures; is easy to grow; and 

 will trail over the ground or climb to the 

 noble height of thirty feet. 



Thirdly, it has an immense advantage 

 over ivy, in being much hardier, growing 

 twenty feet high in New England where ivy 

 can be grown only as a ground-cover. 



Fourthly, its superb red fruits, which 

 closely resemble those of our common wild 

 bittersweet, seem divinely appointed to re- 

 deem our American winters from their bleak, 

 ugly and cheerless moods. 



And fifthly, it promises to develop a 

 strong American character, becoming as uni- 

 versal and as dear to the American heart as 

 ivy is in Europe. 



If I had a million dollars to spare I 

 should like to plant an evergreen bittersweet 

 against every stone, brick and concrete wall 

 in America. The effect would be electrical, for it would add 100 per cent, to the beauty of America. And it 

 would only be anticipating by 100 years what will surely happen, for it is hardly possible that the world holds 

 any plant with greater power to transform a house into a home. As in England every home and every church 

 is enriched, dignified, and ennobled by ivy, so every American home will come to be connected so closely with 

 the evergreen bittersweet that it will be impossible to think of one without the other. 



— Extract from article by Wilhelm Miller in The Garden Magazine, November, IQ12. 



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 freely the second season after planting. 



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ELLIOTT NURSERY 



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 PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 



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