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HARDY CLIMBING PLANTS. 



Clematis, Madame Edouard Andre. 



Hardy Clematis. 



The Clematis we offer this season are exceptionally fine 

 strong plants, two years old; we have reduced the number of 

 varieties to such sorts as from experience we know to succeed 

 best in our climite. Many failures in the growing of Clematis 

 are the result of too shallow planting; the crown of the roots 

 should be set at least 3 inches below the surface of the soil. 

 They delight in a rich, cool soil in an open, sunny position. 

 For covering walls, trellises or verandas, old trees or ruins, or 

 as specimens on the lawn or in borders, or for massing in large 

 beds on the lawn, they have scarcely an equal, certainly no 

 superior. 



Anderson Heiiryi. Creamy white, large and handsome. 

 Duchess of Edinburgh. The best of the double pure 



whites, deliciously scented. 

 Gypsy Queen. One of the very finest of the rich purple 



varieties, a strong grower and free bloomer. 

 Boskoop Seedling. Extra large lavender. 

 Jack mail ni. The best known and most popular variety. 



Color, dark, rich, royal purple. A mass of bloom when in 



full Mower. 

 Jackmanni Alba. A fine pure white. 

 Jackinanili Superba. Very dark violet purple. 

 John Gould Veitcll. Lavender blue; flowers double. 

 Kerniesina. Crimson flower, small but very floriferous. 

 LawSOUiana. Rosy purple with darker veins. 

 Lord Londesborough. Deep mauve, large flowers. 

 Madame Vail Houtte. Pure white; extra fine. 

 Madame Baron Veillard. Light rose shaded lilac. 

 Miss Bateman. White with chocolate-red anthers. 

 Stand ishii. Light lavender blue. 

 The Gem. Deep lavender blue. 



50 cts. each, $5. 00 per dozen. 



CLEMATIS VIRGINIANA. 



A rapid, strung-growing variety, producing a profusion "f 

 white flowers during July and August. 25 cts. each, 5 for $1.00. 



NEW RED CLEMATIS, . 

 MADAME EDOUARD ANDRE. 



An entirely distinct and most novel variety and the nearest 

 approach to a bright red ever sent out. The plant is a strong, 

 vigorous grower, being a hybrid of the popular Jackmanni, 

 which it resembles in freedom of bloom, strong, vigorous growth 

 and shape and size of flower, but is of a distinct carmine red 

 color of a most pleasing shade, entirely different from all other 

 varieties. 75 cts. each. 



CLEMATIS COCCINEA. 



A very handsome, hardy climber, bearing thick, bell-shaped 

 flowers of a bright coral red Color; blooms with wonderful pro- 

 fusion from June until frost. 25 cts. each, 5 for SL00. 



CLEMATIS CRISPA. 



A very beautiful species, bearing an abundance of pretty, 

 bell-shaped, fragrant, lavender flowers with white centre. 

 Blooms from June until frost. 25 cts. each, 5 for $1.00. 



CLEMATIS ELAMMILA. 



(Virgin's Bower.) 



A general favorite, where a hardy rapid-growing vine is 

 desired. Its small, bright-green foliage is almost hidden by clus- 

 ters of small fragrant white flowers. 25 cts. each, 5 for §1.00, 



CLEMATIS PANICILATA. 



A Japanese plant recently introduced to this country and 

 possessing unusually attractive merits. A vine of very rapid 

 growth, quickly covering trellises and arbors with handsome, 

 clean, glossy green foliage. The flowers are of medium size, 

 pure white, borne in immense sheets, and of a most delicious 

 and penetrating fragrance. These flowers appear late in Sep- 

 tember, at a season when very few other vines are in bloom, 

 being an added merit of great consequence. The extreme ra- 

 pidity of its growth, the showy foliage, beautiful and fragrant 

 flowers borne so very freely, and its late blooming nature, 

 united with an entire hardihood, serve to make this one of the 

 very choicest of recent introductions. Good strong plants, 25 

 cts. each, 5 for $1.00. 



Clematis Paniculata. 



