HARDY CLIMBERS. 
ARISTOLOCHIA SIPHO. 
The Climbers are invaluable to the gardener. They furnish the drapery of the garden, and 
transform the most unsightly stump and fence into objects of beauty. The Annual and Tender 
Climbers are a reserve force, ready at the last minute to do their work. The Hardy Climbers, 
once planted, remain and get better 
every season. We can notice only 
a few of the best. 
Ampelopsis quinquefoi.ia, or 
Virginia Creeper, and some- 
times called American Ivy and 
Woodbine, is of rapid growth, will 
go to the top of any building, and 
in the autumn its -foliage is of the 
most elegant crimson. 
Ampelopsis Veitchii, from Ja- 
pan. The foliage is small, and the whole plant slender. 
It climbs closely to the smoothest surface, but suffers some- 
times in the winter. 
Akebia quinata, a singular Japanese Climber, with small, 
pretty foliage, and small 
chocolate brown flowers ; 
a rapid grower, 
Aristolochia Sipho, 
or Dutchman's Pipe, is 
a rapid growing Hardy 
Climber, with very large 
leaves in abundance, com- 
pletely covering any wall 
or trellis to 
which it may 
be attached. It is perfectly hardy everywhere. 
BiGNONIA RADICANS, or TRUMPET CrEEPER, 
is a very strong and rapid grower, with clusters 
of large, trumpet-shaped, orange-scarlet flowers. ' 
Celastrus scandens, or Climbing Bitter 
Sweet, is another beautiful native Climber. 
LONICERA, 
variety from Japan, 
low ; quite fragrant. 
yapan Gold-veined. Foliage small, and beautifully 
netted with creamy yellow ; flowers small, white and sweet. 
Monthly Fragrant, or Dutch ; the flowers of this variety 
are red and pale yellow; it blooms through the whole 
summer. 
Scarlet Trumpet is monthly, and evergreen, or nearly so ; 
flowers two inches in length, scarlet outside and yellow in. 
Clematis flammula, European Sweet, a very sweet- 
scented variety, but flowers small and white, 
Virginiana, the common Virgin's Bower, a native climber, 
with clusters of small white flowers ; fruit with feathery tails. 
yackntanii. This is one of the new English hybrids that 
are attracting so much attention in all parts of the world. 
Wistaria Sinensis, Chinese Wistaria, is a rapid, strong grower, and when once well estab- 
lished will grow twenty feet in a season. The flowers are in long racemes, and light purple. 
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TRUMPET VINE. 
CLIMBING BITTER-SWEET. 
Honeysuckle. — Halleana, an evergreen 
The flowers are white, changing to yel- 
CLEMATIS JACKMANII. 
