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VOL XLVIII. NO 2061. 
NEW YORK, JULY 27, 1889. 
PRICE FIVE CENTS, 
$2.00 PER YEAR. 
[Entered according to Act of Congress, In the Year 1S89, by the Rural New-Yorker, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.] 
inch. These older stems exfoliate the bark 
just as does the old Ninebark, Spiraea opuli- 
folia, now changed to Neillia opulifolia by 
shameless, heartless botanists who are never 
happier than when they can upset and confuse 
the lessons which their instructors taught, and 
which have been learned moderately or fairly 
well by the average school girl or boy. 
The stems, before they are old enough to 
shed their bark, are of a light brown or drab 
color speckled with tiny dots of light gray. 
The leaves are of a dark-green color, ovate 
acuminate, just a trifle inclined to heart-shape 
at the base, and minutely and sharply serrate. 
The petioles are about two inches long, of a 
red color and covered with short hairs. 
After this vine, which bears the name of 
Actinidia pclygama, has become fixed in its 
new quarters, the second or third year let 
us say, its growth exceeds that of any vine we 
know of. It is supplied with neither tendrils 
llotcjs from the ituval (’.mnuul.s. 
A REMARKABLE VINE. 
About six years ago, the R. N.-Y. received 
from Ellwanger & Barry, a single plant of 
this remarkable vine. It was planted on the 
north side of an arbor already well covered 
with Clematis, Dutchman’s Pipe and Chinese 
Yam (‘•Cinnamon” Vine), so that its roots 
and the growth for a year or so could never 
receive sunshine either in the morning or 
afternoon. In this close northern exposure it 
grew rapidly, endured the winters perfectly 
and it is now the most notable exponent of a 
rapid, peculiar growth we have ever seen. 
From the roots issue three main stems each 
of the same diameter—about one and one-half 
ACTINIDIA POLY GAMA. From Nature. Fig. 183. 
