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MISS MARY E. MARTIN, FLORAL PARK, NEW YORK. 
THE FAMOUS CHINESE KUDZU. 
“JACK AND THE BEANSTALK VINE. 
WATCH IT 
GROW ! ! 
(Pueraria Thunbergiana.) 
“ It is a veritable Jack and the Beanstalk Vine.”— 
A. H. Olmsted, Esq., in Meehan's Monthly. 
“There is possibly nothing- like it in the whole 
vegetable kingdom. It is extremely valuable for 
rapidly covering anything in one season, and inter¬ 
esting to the lover of the wonderful. It has grown 
on our grounds 70 feet in one season.”— Mr. Thomas 
Meehan. 
If you wish a vine that will grow anywhere, in the best or poorest 
soil, then plant the Chinese Kudzu. It will flourish where nothing 
else will grow, and will last for twenty-five years or more. 
The large, bold leaves of the brightest green afford a dense shade. 
The clusters of purple Wistaria-like flowers , 6 to 7 inches long, are 
deliciously fragrant , but its greatest feature is its wonderfully strong 
growth (12 inches in a day), which makes it invaluable for rapidly 
covering arbors, fences, porches, dead or old trees, 
rockeries, etc. As such it was recommended by “Gar¬ 
den and Forest,” “American Gardening,” “Meehan’s 
Monthly,” and other reliable journals, as well as by 
such eminent authorities as Mr. Watson, of the Royal 
Kew Gardens; Mr. Olmsted, of World’s Fair fame, and. 
Mr. Thomas Meehan, in whose garden it has been 
growing since 1876! In the Hakone Mountains, much 
visited by tourists, the Kudzu fills the air with fra¬ 
grance. The vine is, of course, very hardy, grows to a 
height of 50 feet, if permitted, and is well filled with 
dense foliage close to the ground, but may be kept 
down by cutting back. 
PACKET, 15 SEEDS, 10c. 
Soak the seed in warm water for 6 hours before 
planting. Start inside in pots or boxes, and 
transplant outside, where it is wanted to 
grow, when the plants are 3 or 4 inches high, 
if the weather is suitable. The enormous 
growths mentioned by these various author. 
ities of course refer to established plants, 
and not to seeds the first year, although the 
second year they make enormous growths. 
Good plants are 40c. each ; 3 for $1.00. 
BOUCHOS JAPONICUS. 
“Sticklers for the right must kindly excuse 
me heading these notes with the name 
given instead of the correct one, Pueraria 
Thunbergiana; but old names hang to us 
and it seems like giving the cut to an old 
friend to give this plant a new designation. 
“This vine has been given much notice of 
late on account of its enormous annual 
growth. Shoots of fifty feet in a season are 
not at all uncommon. It is such a rapid 
grower that it must have lots of room ; and 
for this reason common porches and similar 
structures are unsuited for it. What it wants 
is a pergola, or something on wdiich it can 
entwine itself to reach the top of a tall build- 
, .... . ing or tree; it wants no enticement to make 
mor 4 ?^, ro T" than any other vine in cultivation known in our nurseries of to-day. 
' I he foliage of this vine is not unlike that of the Lima bean, but it belongs to the family of wistarias, and, like 
those vines, lias racemes of flowers six to eight inches in length ; the blossoms are rose colored and fragrant. But 
instead ot the racemes drooping, as they do in wistaria, they are erect. The plant, when in bloom, continues 
to ttower tor about six weeks. When grown to something overhead, such as a pergola, the flowers are free to the 
vision, but when growing to a.tree, or similar object, the growth is so rapid as to overlap the blooms, and one some- 
does not know the vine is flowering till admonished to look for the flowers by the odor when passing, or those 
that have fallen. It is a most useful vine because of its rapid growth, and one which may be considered quite hardy; 
as, no matter it its shoots are hurt by cold, it springs up and grows like magic as soon as the season opens.” 
JOSEPH MEEHAN. 
Kudzu Vine growing on house. 
