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NAMED SORTS OF 
Album elegans. Very large, white flow- 
ered, fine form. 
Albnm grandiflorum. White, tinged 
with blush. 
Atrosangnineum. Rich, dark purple. 
Caractacns. Rich red ; free bloomer. 
Charles Bagley. Cherry red ; fine broad 
■ truss. 
Charles Dickens. Dark red ; one of the 1 
best. I 
Price, 1 1-2 to 3 
RHODODENDRONS. 
Delicatissimnm. A vigorous-growing 
variety. Broad truss of white, tinged 
with blush. 
Everestianum. Of broad, dense habit of 
growth, large clusters of rosy lilac 
flowers, with beautiful, crimped petals. 
Lady Armstrong. Pale rose; beautifully 
spotted. 
Old Port. Rich plum. 
Rosenm elegans. Fine, clear rose, 
ft., $1.60 to S3. 
YUCCA— Thread and Needle Plant. 
YUCCA fllamentosa (Thread and Needle Plant). Bzv/. A most interesting ever- 
green of semi-tropical effect, with long sword-like, dark green evergreen foliage, 
with curious thread like filaments hanging from the edges. In June an immense 
spike of creamy white, pendulous, lily-like, fragrant flowers is borne well above 
the foliage on a long, clean stem. A plant adapted to all soils, and thriving in the 
most sterile situations and under the bleakest conditions of e.\posure. Well 
adapted for seashore planting. See illustration on front cover page. 50 cts. 
CUmbing l^ine^, 
ACTINIDIA. 
ACTINIDIA polygama. A rapid-growing Japanese vine, with broadly lanceolate, deep, 
shining green foliage and bearing fragrant, white, black-anthered flowers in 
showy, flat clusters m June. Of extremely rapid growth. Choice for the rapid 
covering of wallg, trellises and screens. 35 cts. 
AKEBIA. 
AKEBIA quinata. A rapid climber of dense growth, with rich, green, clover-like 
foliage and pendulous clusters of dark purple flowers, borne at the opening of 
the foliage. 35 cts. 
AMPELOPSIS— Woodbine. 
AMPELOPSIS dissecta. A rapid-growing vine with deeply cut, fern-like foliage, and 
bearing showy blue and white fruits in autumn. 35 cts. 
A. quinqnefolia (Virginia Creeper, or Woodbine). Well known climber, with broad, 
deeply cut foliage of a pleasing shade of green, taking on most brilliant autumn 
coloring. 25 cts. 
A. — . var. Englemannii (Englemann's W.). Choice variety, with smaller, glossier 
green foliage, and with disk-like tendrils which enable the vines to attach them- 
selves to stone and woodwork. Particularly desirable in this respect where the 
Boston Ivy is not sufliciently hardy. 35 cts. 
A. Veitchii (Japanese, or Boston Ivy). A most charming vine, with handsome, 
glossy green, deeply lobed foliage, assuming a most brilliant autumnal coloring, 
and with the habit of attaching itself firmly and closely to stonework, thus 
enabling it to completely cover the face of the building. So many beautiful 
examples of this vine are to be found in the vicinity of Boston, covering the many 
public buildings, that detailed description is unnecessary. 35 cts. 
