CLIMBING VINES 
BALLOON VINE 
A rapid-growing, handsome summer climber, small, 
white flowers, followed by inflated seed vessels, shaped like 
small balloons. Ten to fifteen feet; annual. Pkt. 5 cents. 
CYPRESS VINE. 
CANARY=BIRD vine 
A rapid-growing, summer-climbing annual, growing ten 
to fifteen feet high. It will cover trellis work in the most 
graceful manner, producing hundreds of its pretty fringed 
bright yellow flowers, which resemble a canary bird with 
expanded wings. Pkt., 5 cents. 
CO BCE A SCAN DENS 
A fine rapid growing climber with handsome foliage 
and large, bell-shaped flowers, green at first, but rapidly 
changing to a beautiful deep violet-blue. A well established 
plant will run about thirty feet in a season, covering a 
large veranda with handsome foliage and beautiful flowers. 
Tender perennial. Pkt., 5 cents. 
COBOEA SCANDENS. 
CYPRESS VINE 
(Ipomoea Quamocllt.) A most beautiful climber with 
delicate, dark green, feathery foliage and an abundance of 
bright, star-shaped, rose, scarlet or white blossoms, which 
contrast most effectively with the graceful foliage. Tender 
annual; about fifteen feet high. 
Mixed Colors. White and scarlet. Pkt., 5 cents. 
DOLICHOS 
(Hyacinth Bean.) A popular climber of extra rapid 
growth, making a dense and attractive screen. 
Mixed Colors. White and reddish violet. Pkt., 5 cents. 
MOMORDICA 
Balsam Pear, a curious annual climber, with yellow 
blossoms and gracefully cut foliage. The fruit is pear 
shaped and has a warty skin; when ripe it bursts open and 
shows a brilliant interior of large carmine colored seeds. 
Fine for trellises, etc. Pkt., 5 cents. 
Balsam Apple. Like Balsam Pear but the fruit is 
smaller and nearly round. Pkt., 5 cents. 
GOURD 
(Cucurblta.) A tribe of climbers with curiously shaped 
and colored fruit. Being of rapid growth, they are fine to 
cover old fences, trellises, stumps, etc. Tender annual; 
ten to twenty feet high. 
Japanese Nest Egg. The fruits make excellent nest 
eggs, since they are white, of proper size, do not crack and 
are not injured by heat or cold. Vine very handsome. Pkt., 
5 cents. 
Dipper Gourd. Useful for many household purposes 
and a desirable vine for porches. Pkt., 5 cents. 
Hercules Club Gourd. Produces immense club-shaped 
fruits, four feet long. Pkt., 5 cents. 
Small Varieties Mixed. Produces a great variety of 
small curious fruits. Pkt., 5 cents. 
MOMORDICA (BALSAM PEAR.) 
Humulus Japonicus Folia Variegata 
A strikingly beautiful variety of the Japan Hop Vine; 
the leaves are liberally and distinctly striped and blotched 
with silvery-white and gray on deep green. It Is a rapid 
summer climber, in three or four weeks' time attaining a 
height of twenty to thirty feet; resembling the common 
hop, but, being an annual, attains full perfection the first 
season. The foliage Is luxuriant, making a dense covering. 
One of the best plants for covering verandas, trellises, etc. 
Heat, drought and insects do not trouble It. Pkt., 5 cents. 
MORNING GLORY 
(Convolvulus Major.) Either of the varieties listed will 
make a beautiful display of rapid-growing vine and gor- 
geous flowers. The Japanese Morning Glories produce much 
laiger flowers than the old kind, with a wider range of 
color, including every possible shade from the faintest pink 
to the deepest blue. 
New Japanese Mixed. The finest colors. Pkt., 5 cents. 
Fine Mixed. The old-fashioned kind. Pkt., 5 cents. 
MIXTURE OF CLIMBERS 
Sure to produce an abundance of beautiful vines no 
matter where planted. Pkt., 5 cents. 
MOON FLOWER 
Makes an immense growth of vine, and dense, glossy- 
green foliage. Seed should be started early, especially in 
the North as it Is a late bloomer. File or cut a small notch 
In edge of seed before planting, and soak a few hours in 
warm water. 
Large Fowering White. The old favorite. Pkt., 5 cents. 
NASTURTIUMS 
See page 27 for description and cultural directions of 
tall or climbing kinds. 
SCARLET RUNNER 
A popular, ornamental climber, with sprays of bright, 
pea-shaped blossoms. Pkt., 5 cents. 
WILD CUCUMBER VINE 
Most rapid growing and free flowering. The vines at- 
tain a great height; they begin to bloom early, and by mid- 
summer are covered with large sprays or panicles of small 
white flowers. Pkt., 5 cents. 
Special Prices for Flower Seed in Bulk. 
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