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KICHAED FROTSCHER S ALMANAC AND GARDEN MANUAL 



Aristolochia Elegans. 



Ip©Bsi8Ea*C|iiaiii®ciil; all>£i. White 

 Cypress Yine. The same as the red variety. 



IposiaseaBoiia M®X. Large Flowering 

 Evening Glory. A. vine of rapid growth, with 

 beautiful blue and white flowers v/hich open 

 in the evening. Twenty feet high. February 

 till June. 



This is the Moon flower advertised in 

 Northern catalogues as a novelty, not- 

 withstanding the fact that it has been known 

 here for the past centur3^ 



Liathyriis odos'ntais. Sweet Peas. 

 Beautiful flowers of all colors, very showy. 

 Good for cut flowers. Six feet high. Decem- 

 ber till April. 



Maairairaclia Barclayana. Mixed 



Maurandia. A slender growing vine of rapid 

 growth. Eose purple and white colors mixed. 

 Ten feet high. February till April. 



Mina l«oI>ala,. This novelty, which is 

 supposed to have first originated in Mexico, is 

 one of the most beautiful climbing vines for 

 ornamenting the garden. It closely resembles 

 in growth and its three-lobed foliage the several 

 sjpecies of the family of Ipomsea; but the 

 flowers are altogether different. The flowers 

 appear on fork-like racemes bearing them- 

 selves upright or almost erect out of the dense 

 and luxuriant foliage, and with their bright 

 colors they present an extraordinary striking 

 aspect. The buds are at first bright red, but 

 change to orange yellow, and when in full 

 bloom, to yellowish white. The most singular 

 feature of this plant is, that it retains the 

 racemes developed at first during the whole 

 flowering season, the buds continuing to grow 

 successively at the top of the racemes, while 



the lower flov^ers, after blooming for some 

 time fade, bearing thus continually clusters of 

 flowers from the bottom up to the highest vine 

 of the plant. The oldest racemes attain a 

 length of 15 to 18 inches, and at the end of 

 the time of blooming they have produced from 

 30 to 40 individual flowers on each raceme, of 



Mina Lobata. 



