CHOICE HARDY CLIMBERS 
Wwe POT-GROWN PLANTS FOR SUMMER PLANTING 
There are not many gardens in which the planting of a few more vines or Climbers would not add additional charm. 
The time to look for the place to plant these is now, while the growing plants will help you to decide where such additional 
plants are needed and where nature helps you to select the proper and fitting variety. 
We are ready to help you in this situation, and with this in view, we have prepared the following climbers in pots, so that they 
can be plamted on any day this summer, thus gaining a season’s growth and be 
ready te add their charm to the rest of your garden next summer. 
ACTINIDIA ARGUTA (The Silver Vine). 
A desirable Japanese climber of strong vigorous growth, with dark green, 
shining foliage and greenish-white flowers with purple centres. An excellent 
plant for covering arbors, trellises, etc. Strong plants, 60 cts. each; $6.00 per doz. 
ACTINIDIA CHINENSIS. 
A valuable introduction from central China with large orbicular foliage of dark 
green, which, when young, is thickly covered with bright red hairs, giving it a 
beautiful velvety or plush-like appearance. In its native habitat it bears clusters 
of showy yellow flowers, succeeded by edible fruits the size of a walnut, of 
gooseberry flavor. A remarkably handsome, rapid-growing climber for covering 
arbors, pergolas, etc. Strong plants, 75 cts. each. 
AKEBIA QUINATA (Akebia Vine). 
One of the most graceful of our hardy climbers, with deep green, small foliage, 
and producing in early spring numberless bunches of violet-brown flowers, which 
have a pleasant cinnamon odor; most desirable for positions where a dense shade 
is not required. Strong plants, 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz,; $15.00 per 100. 
| AMPELOPSIS ENGELMANNI. 
A greatly improved variety of the Virginia Creeper, with dense foliage of a 
glossy light-green in summer, changing to a brilliant crimson in the autumn. On 
_ a rough stone surface it will cling without support in the same way as the 
Japanese Ivy. 26 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $15.00 per 100. 
AMPELOPSIS LOWII. 
| While not quite as rapid in growth as Ampelopsis Veitchi, it possesses all of 
its other good points, being perfectly hardy and clinging to the smoothest surface 
without support, to which must be added the much smaller, deeply cut foliage, 
which gives it a grace and elegance not possessed by any other vine. 
In spring and summer the leaves are of a bright, fresh apple-green color, 
changing in the autumn to brilliant crimson and scarlet. Strong plants, 50 cts. 
each; $5.00 per doz.; $35.00 per 100. AMPELOPSIS TRICOLOR 
(Vitis heterophylla Variegata.) 
AKFBIA QUINATA 
A beautiful and desirable climber, with fine dark green 
foliage, wonderfully variegated with white and pink; during the 
late summer and fall the plantis liberally covered with attractive 
small berries of a peculiar lustrous metallic peacock-blue color; 
highly useful for trailing over rocks or for a low trellis. 25 cts- 
each; $2.50 per doz. 
AMPELOPSIS VEITCHI. 
(Boston Ivy, or Japan Ivy.) 
The most popular climbing plant for covering brick, stone or 
wooden walls, trees. etc.; when it becomes established it is of 
very rapid growth, and clings to the smoothest surface with the 
tenacity of ivy; the foliage is of a rich olive-green during the 
summer, changing to various shades of bright crimson and scar- 
let in the fall. In planting Ampelopsis of all kinds the plants, 
if still in a dormant condition, should be cut down to within 6 
inches of the ground, so that the new growth may cling to the 
wall or tree from the bottom up. (See cut.) Ex‘ra strong 
two-year-old plants, 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $18.00 per 
100. 
ARISTOLOCHIA SIPHO. 
(Duchman’s Pipe Vine.) 
A vigorous and rapid-growing climber, bearing singular, 
brownish-colored flowers, resembling in shape a pipe. Its 
flowers, however, are of little value compared to its light-green 
leaves, which are of very large size, and retain their color from 
early spring to late fall; perfectly hardy. Strong plants, 50 
AMPELOPSIS VEITCHI cts. each; $5.00 per doz, 
