Isaac Hicks & Son, Westbury Station, N. Y. — Vines 
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Dutchman's Pipe 
(Aristolochia sipho) 
This unique vine has immense heart-shaped 
leaves about 10 inches in diameter. It is suitable for 
porches, pergolas, or to clamber over stumps. It is 
slow the first two years, but ultimately will cover 
the side of a house. The flowers are inconspicuous, 
and so shaped as to justify its name. 
Euonymus 
Euonymus radicans. This vine is but little 
known, but when it is we predict for it a wide 
popularity. Of course, English Ivy has the ad- 
vantage with its literary, ecclesiastic and art 
associations, but the Euonymus has the advan- 
tage of hardiness in our climate, especially from 
New York northward, and toward the interior. 
At Westbury there is a Euonymus radicans on a 
Locust tree where it is about 30 feet high, sending 
out long branches, 4 feet long, after the manner 
of the English Ivy and Poison Ivy. The leaves 
are permanently evergreen and are of dark color 
and glossy surface. It has no serious enemies and 
will grow freely on brick, stone, or even on painted 
boards. It will carpet the ground with green and 
grow upward in points about 2 feet. It can be 
rapidly multiplied as it takes root when layered. 
E. radicans, var. Carriere. This form has larger 
elliptical leaves and is more shrub-like in growth. 
E. radicans, Round-leaved Form. This is very 
distinct in appearance, with thick, round, light 
green leaves and abundant red berries. It will 
clamber over rocks and low walls and can be 
used at the foundation of a house or edge of 
groups of broad-leaved evergreens. 
Honeysuckle • Lonicera 
Honeyscukles are a large genus, containing some 
valuable shrubs, described on page 58, and a num- 
ber of useful vines. They are not particular as to 
soil or moisture and can be satisfactorily used for 
naturalizing along the borders of woodland, on 
fences, as well as on porches, windmill towers and 
pergolas. 
Japanese. Lonicera Japonica. This is the most 
popular and widely known Honeysuckle. To 
show its appreciation of our climate it has run 
wild along roadsides and in the woods where its 
evergreen foliage brightens the winter landscape. 
It will make a hedge equal to the Privet, needing, 
of course, a wire fence to support it. It blooms 
abundantly in June, with deliciously fragrant 
blossoms, and then again in late autumn. It is 
called Hall's Honeysuckle from the missionary 
who first introduced it with the Hall's Magnolia 
and several other Japanese plants. He realized 
the climate similarity, but had difficulty to find 
a nurseryman to even pay the freight on his 
shipment. We can supply rooted layers at very 
iow rates for planting on steep banks to hold 
them from washing. 
Chinese. L. Japonica, var. Chinensis. Similar to 
the Japanese excepting that the leaves are 
purple beneath and that it does not readily take 
root from layers and spread in large mats where 
planted, and it does not spread from seeds. It is 
a handsome evergreen vine, with ornamental, 
shining black berries. We have propagated a 
The graceful sprays and tendrils of our native Woodbine, 
or Virginia Creeper, are but little appreciated. It can be used 
to decorate tree trunks, pergolas, tennis back-stops, festoon 
shrubs or hold sand-dunes, (See page 76.) 
Honeysuckle, Chinese, continued 
large quantity which we offer at low rates, 
presenting an opportunity to make a good land- 
scape effect. 
Coral Trumpet. L. sempervirens. Conspicuous 
for its long, red trumpet-shaped flowers. It is a 
handsome vine, occasionally wild on Long Island, 
in the Cedars or along fences. It can be appro- 
priately planted in such situations, or on pergolas. 
Heckrotti. This is a low climber, blooming in June, 
and again in October, November and December. 
It may be planted under or with other vines 
merely for its unusual flowering period. 
Ivy 
English. Hedera helix. There are many beautiful 
old plants of English Ivy on Long Island. Many 
will remember how the severe winter of 1903-04 
killed back their favorite Ivy. Notwithstanding 
such occasional disasters, it is worthy of extensive 
planting. Like other broad-leaved evergreens, it 
likes best partial shade in the winter, partial 
shelter from severe drying winds and mulching 
to keep out the frost. These conditions can be 
met on the north side of the house or in groves 
of trees. The problem of making more attractive 
our rather monotonous winter woodland may be 
solved in part by using the English Ivy, both as 
a carpet on the ground and to run up the tree 
