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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 radicans 
vegctus). In the first place, it is evergreen, and 
therefore has an obvious advantage over de- 
ciduous 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 universal 
and as dear to the American heart 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 wall 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. 
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