THE ELIZABETH NURSERY COMPANY'S ABRIDGED CATALOGUE. 
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HARDY CLIMBING SHRUBS AM) PLANTS. 
AMPELOPSIS 
AMPELOPSIS Veitchii. Sometimes called Boston or Japan Ivy. No pen or picture can portray the beauty of this 
grand climbing plant (see cut). Throughout the most fashionable parts of Boston there are hundreds of the finest 
houses covered with this most beautiful vine from the ground to the roof, and it can be seen in many places going to 
the tops of chimneys, a beautiful sight in summer, with its glossy leaves lapping over each other like shingles on a 
roof. In the fall it assumes the most gorgeous and beautiful tints of scarlet, crimson, green and orange, so dazzling as 
to be seen at a great distance. Entirely hardy in the most exposed places, growing to height of from 15 to 20 feet in 
two or three years, clinging to stones, brick, or wood with tenacity. We have over 150,000 of this valuable vine 
growing, therefore we are sure that no one can compete with us either in quality or prices. First size, 2 to 3 feet, 
85 cts. each, $2.50 per 10, $20 per 100. Second size, \% to 2 feet, 20 cts. each, $1.50 per 10, $10 per 100. Third 
size, 12 to 15 inches, 10 cts. each, 80 cts. per 10, $7 per 100. Small plants, good roots, $5 per 100. 
A. quinquefolia (American Ivy or Virginia Creeper). Has beautiful digitate leaves that become rich crimson in 
autumn : a very rapid grower. 15 cts. and 25 cts. each; very heavy, 35 cts. each; good plants, $12 per 100. 
ACTINIDIA polygama. June. Broadly lanceolate, deep, shining green foliage. Flowers white, with black 
anthers, fragrant, and very freely produced. The fruit is edible. Rare and choice. 35 cts. 
BIGNONIA radicans. The well-known Trumpet Creeper. Of rapid growth and bearing large trumpet-shaped scar- 
let flowers. 15 to 25 cts. each, $1.50 per 10. 
CLEMATIS Jackmanni. Large, intense violet-purple. 35 cts. to 50 cts. 
C. Madame Edward Andre. Single, crimson. This is a very valuable new variety, of a distinctly new color. It is 
a fine bright crimson, with no purplish shading about it. The flowers are of good size and borne so profusely that it 
has been called the " Crimson Jackmanni." 1-year, 35 cts.; 2 years old, 75 cts. (See cut on first page of cover of 
our regular Catalogue.) 
C. Henryi. New, a very free bloomer. The flowers are white, large and very showy. July to October. 35 cts., 
50 cts. and 75 cts. 
