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T U E G A R D E X M A G A Z I X E 
September, 1916 
The Best Evergreen Vine 
For America 
T he accompanying picture gives but a 
faint hint of the five-fold glories of the 
evergreen bittersweet {Euonymus Jap- 
onicus vegetus). In the first place, it is ever- 
green, and therefore has an obvious advan- 
tage over deciduous vines in being beautiful 
365 days of the year instead of two weeks or 
seven months. 
Secondly, it is very accommodating as to 
soils, climate, exposures; is easy to grow; and 
will trail over the ground or climb to the 
noble height of thirty feet. 
Thirdly, it has an immense advantage 
over ivy, in being much hardier, growing 
twenty feet high in New England where ivy 
can be grown only as a ground-cover. 
Fourthly, its superb red fruits, which 
closely resemble those of our common wild 
bittersweet, seem divinely appointed to re- 
deem our American winters from their bleak, 
ugly and cheerless moods. 
And fifthly, it promises to develop a 
strong American character, becoming as uni- 
versal and as dear to the American Teart as 
ivy is in Europe. 
If I had a million dollars to spare I 
should like to plant an evergreen bittersweet 
against every stone, brick and concrete wall 
in America. The effect would be electrical, for it would add 100 per cent, to the beauty of America. And it 
would only be anticipating by 100 years what will surely happen, for it is hardly possible that the world holds 
any plant with greater power to transform a house into a home. As in England every home and every church 
is enriched, dignified, and ennobled by ivy, so every American home will come to be connected so closely with 
the evergreen bittersweet that it will be impossible to think of one without the other. 
Extract from article by Wilhelm Miller in The Garden Magazine, November, igi2. 
We have a large stock of the true variety of this splendid vine grown from cuttings and which will fruit 
freely the second season after planting. 
Strong pot-grown plants ready for immediate planting, 50 cents each; $5.00 per dozen 
W e have the largest, finest and most comprehensive stock of Hardy Plants in America, including two hun- 
dred varieties of the choicest Peonies, and also the largest collection of Japanese Iris in the world, and an 
unsurpassed collection of named Phloxes. Our illustrated catalogue, describing these and hundreds of other 
Hardy Plants, Trees, Rhododendrons, Azaleas and Shrubs will be sent on request. 
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