FOUNDEI 

 1850 



DiNGEE Guide To Rose Culture 



Clematis Paniculata 



The Most Wonderful of All Flowering Vines — Quick Grower, 

 Exquisite Fragrance. 



The flowers are pure white and are borne in great panicles 

 or clusters of bloom, fairly covering the plants, so that it is a 

 mass or sheet of fleecy white with an exquisite fragrance. It 

 begins to bloom late in August the first year. Hardy in all 

 sections of the country. Strong plants in pots, 15c each; 4 for 

 50c; 9 for $1.00; strong two-year-old field-grown plants, 25c 

 each; 3 for 70c; $2.50 per dozen, postpaid. 



Large Flowering Hardy Clematis 



Broad, flat flowers of exquisite hues produced in great fes- 

 toons of wondrous beauty. We offer large, strong, imported, 

 two- and three-year-old plants on own roots, for 50c each; 6 for 

 $2.50 ; $4.00 per dozen, postpaid. 



Jackmani — Immense flowers, 4 to 5 inches across, of exquisite, 

 deep royal purple. 



Henryi — Large creamy white flowers of large size. 



Ville de Lyon — New. Very free-flowering variety. Brilliant 



carmine. 

 Madame Edouard Andre — Resembles Jackmani, except that its 



flowers are beautiful carmine-red. 



Fairy Queen — Beautiful delicate pink, borne in great profusion. 

 New Coral Clematis, Clematis Coccinea — A handsome climber 



with a profusion of bright coral red flowers in constant bloom. 



Price, Coral Clematis, 20c each; 3 for 50c. 



Hardy Climbing Vines 



The various plants described on this page are all 1 

 perfectly hardy and of exceedingly rapid and vigorous 

 growth. They are used extensively for covering old I 

 buildings, trees, fences, etc., which they will com- 

 pletely cover in the process of time. Some of them, 

 like the Ivies, survive for ages and attain immense pro- 

 portions. 



Ampelopsis - Boston Ivy 



Either variety, fine plants, 15c each; 4 for 50c; 9 for 

 $1.00; three-year-old plants, 3 feet in length, 40c each; 

 3 for $1.00, postpaid. 



VEITCHII (Boston or Japanese Ivy) — It covers build- 

 ings and walls with a perfect mat of dark green, 

 leathery foliage, which changes to a brilliant crim- 

 son as fall approaches. Clings to either tree or wood 

 without support. 



QUINQUIFOLIA (Virginia Creeper)— Large, dark 

 green foliage. 



AMELOPSIS ENGELMANNI— A greatly improved va- 

 riety 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 

 it will cling without support in the same way as 

 the Japanese Ivy. 35c each; $3.50 per dozen. 



AMPELOPSIS TRICOLOR (Vitis heterophylla varie- 

 gata) — A beautiful and desirable climber, with fine 

 dark green foliage, wonderfully variegated with 

 white and pink; during the late summer and fall the 

 plant is 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. 20c each; 6 for $1.00; larger plants 30c each; 

 4 for $1.00, postpaid. 



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