FAMOUS ROCK RIVER VALLEY SEED FARMS 
75 
JACKMANII CLEMATIS 
HARDY CLEMATIS 
UNIVERSAL FAVORITE CLIMBER 
BEAUTIFUL FOR PORCH OR TRELLIS 
JACKMANII 
(The King) 
This variety, with its strong, healthy growth, hardy na- 
ture and rich, deep velvety-purple flowers, is the most 
satisfactory of its class. Blooms with astonishing pro- 
fusion on shoots of tiie present season; should be pruned 
early in spring. Strong, hardy plants, 2-year-old, 35 cents 
each; 3 for $1.00; postpaid. 
JAPANESE CLEMATIS 
(Clematis Paniculata) 
(Also known as "Virgin's Bower") 
The finest small-flowered Clematis extant. A wonder- 
fully rapid gi'ovver, quickly covering trellises, arbors, etc. 
The flowers are pure white, deliciously fragrant, and pro- 
duced with the greatest freedom. It flowers in Septem- 
ber, when few other vines are in bloom. This is the 
easiest to grow and most popular of all the small-flow- 
ered vines. 2-year-old, strong, hardy plants, 20 cents 
each; 3 for 50 cents, postpaid. 
MAD. EDOUARD ANDRE 
An entirely distinct and beautiful new variety, being 
the nearest approach to a bright red ever sent out. Has 
the same vigorous growth, hardiness and freedom of 
bloom as the above, while the color is a pleasing carmine 
red. 2-year-old, strong hardy plants, 35 cents each; 3 
for $1.00, postpaid. 
CHINESE WISTARIA 
Perfectly Hardy — Strikingly Beautiful 
One of the most elegant and rapid gi'owing of all climbing plants; at- 
tains an immense size, growing at the rate of 1.5 to 20 feet in a single 
season. Bears an abundance of long, pendulous clusters of purple- 
lilac flowers in IVIay and June and again in Autumn. Large, 2-year- 
old plants, 35 cents each, postpaid. 
THE NEW HARDY JAPANESE SNOWBALL 
A Perfect Beauty — Everblooming 
This .Japanese variety of the old-fashioned Snowball is one of the 
most valuable of all hardy shrubs. It forms an erect, compact plant. 
G to 8 feet in height, blooms in June and for a long time the plants 
are filled with hundreds of big snowy balls that glisten witli etliereal 
whiteness like gems in the sunlight. One of the grandest and most 
striking of all hardy decorative plants. Strong, hardy plants, 25 each; 
3 for 60 cents; postpaid. 
SPIREA, BRIDAL WREATH 
This lovely old-fashioned shrub is always popular, and justly so, 
because of its real beauty; bears large spirals of densely crowded 
double white flowers, each blossom like a miniature rose, the entire 
length of the branches — and they appear by the million — hence the 
common tital of "Bridal Wreath." A beautiful floral wreath is made 
at once by bending and tying the ends of the branch together. One 
of the most beautiful hardy shrubs in existence. Fine plants, 2-year- 
old, 25 cents each; 3 for 60 cents, postpaid. 
JAPANESE SNOWBALL 
HYDRANGEA GRANDIFLORA 
HARDY HYDRANGEA 
ARBORESCENS GRANDIFLORA 
This new American Hydrangea was found growing wild some 
years ago in the woods of Ohio and bids fair to become the most 
beautiful hardy flowering slirub introduced during the last 
twenty years. Its greatest value, aside from its beauty, is that 
it comes into bloom just after the flowering time of the Lilacs, 
Syringas, Viburnum and spring-flowering Spiraeas and contin- 
ues on into August. The panicle is more like a Snowball in form 
and size than Paniculata Grandiflora (lience the name), and is a 
pure white. It seems to thrive well in various soils but requires 
shade. We offer strong dormant plants. 25 cents each; 3 for 
60 cents, postpaid, 
HYDRANGEA PANICULATA GRANDIFLORA 
Tens of thousands of this noble summer and autumn-flower- 
ing shrub have been sold the past few years, and the demand is 
now universal. They grow to a height of 8 to 10 feet and are 
absolutely hardy, grow in any soil and bloom the same year 
they are set out. They flower abundantly, bearing immense 
panicles of bloom a foot long, white at first, turning to rose in 
autumn, commencing to bloom in August, when very few 
shrubs are in bloom. An annual shortening of branches tends 
to Increase the size of the flowers. Very select stock, 25 cents 
each; 3 for 60 cents, postpaid. 
