RICHARD FROTSCHER’S ALMANAC AND GARDEN MANUAL 
Morning Glory. 
Benineasa ceriferr. Wax Gourd. | cuiture. 
A strong growing vine with bong shaped 
dark crimson fruit, which looks very 
ornamental. Itis used for preserves. 
Cardiospermzm. Balloon Vine. 
A quick-growing climber, the seeds of 
which are in a pod, shaped like a minia- 
ture balloon, therefore the name. 
Cobwea Scandens. Climbing Co- 
bea. Large purple beil-shaped flowers. 
Should be sown in a hot-bed, and not 
kept too moist, Place the seed edgewise 
in the ground. Twenty feet high. Jan- 
uary till April. 
Convolvulus major. Morning 
Glory. Well known yine with various 
handsomely colored flawers, of easy 
Mixed Thunbergia. 
Grows almost anywhere. Ten 
feet high. February till July. 
Curcurbita. Ornamental Gourd. 
Mixed varieties or Ornamental Gourds 
of different shapes and sizes. February 
till May. 
Curcurbita lagenaria dulcis. 
Sweet Gourd. A strong growing vine 
of which the young fruits are used like 
Squash. February till April. eee 
Dolichos Lablab. Hyacinth Beans. 
| Free growing plant, with purple and 
white flowers. March till April. 
[pomzwa Quamoclit rosea. Red 
Cypress Vine. - Very beautiful, delicate 
foliage. of rapid growth, with scarlet 
flowers. — Saye 
