SKY FLOWER—THUNBERGIA GRANDIFLORA 
RARE VINES 
and Trailing Plants 
from the Exotic Circle 
Thunbergia 
SKY FLOWER 
THUNBERGIA GRANDIFLORA. Sky Flower. India. 
A splendid climber for Southern California growing rap¬ 
idly and blossoming very freely with a succession of beau¬ 
tiful soft lavender blue flowers throughout the year. The 
individual blossoms are fully three inches across, and hang 
in conspicuous clusters. The twining stems are clothed 
with beautiful large, soft green, pointed leaves. Everyone 
likes this vine at first sight, and should have at least one. 
If frozen down it comes right up and is soon blooming 
freely again. 4-inch pots, 75c; 6-inch pots, flowering 
size, $1.50. 
HIBBERTIA 
HIBBERTIA VOLUB1LIS. Australia. One of the 
finest vines of recent introduction. A vigorous 
grower having large dark glossy evergreen leaves 
and producing an abundance of beautiful pure 
golden yellow flowers like graceful single roses. 
Blooms throughout the year and is quite hardy. 
For fences and trellises it is a beautiful subject, 
and may also be used to cover steep slopes, 
where it makes an admirable spectacle. 6-inch 
pots, $1.50; Large specimens, $3.50. 
JACQUEMONTIA 
JACQUEMONTIA CALIFORNICA. Lower Cali¬ 
fornia and Mexico. An interesting and beautiful 
twining shrub or vine bearing abundantly sky 
blue flowers like a Convolvulus. Fine for sunny 
locations where it will ramble over the ground 
and up any proximate support. $1.00. 
OXERA 
OXERA PULCHELLA. New Caledonia. An ex¬ 
tremely valuable new vine bearing a wonderful 
profusion of ivory white, trumpet shaped, frag¬ 
rant flowers 2 inches long and one inch across, 
in clusters. A vigorous grower with glossy foliage 
evergreen and handsome. Suitable for sun or part 
shade, climbing to 15 or 20 feet. $1.50. Large 
flowering size specimens, $3.50 and $5.00. 
QUISQUALIS 
Rangoon Creeper 
QUISQUALIS INDICA. Rangoon Creeper. Bur¬ 
ma. A tender tropical vine for warm protected 
patios or conservatories. Well worth experiment¬ 
ing with in Southern California. Vigorous grow¬ 
ing, soon recovering if injured by light frosts. 
It is covered in late spring and summer with 
drooping panicles of fragrant white flowers which 
turn pink or red toward evening, and are good 
for cutting. Deciduous. $1.00. 
STICMAPHYLLON 
Canary Bird Vine—Orchid Vine 
STIGMAPHYLLON CILIATUM. South America. 
One of the handsomest medium sized vines for 
trellises and a beautiful conservatory and green¬ 
house climber, forming a tracery of slender green 
stems and attractive foliage and bearing large 
clusters of bright yellow, dainty orchid-like flow¬ 
ers all through the warm months of the year. 
Prefers a warm, protected shady location, or sun 
near the coast. 75e; 5-gal. $2.50. 
PETREA 
Queen’s Wreath 
PETREA VOLUBILIS. Queen's Wreath. Cuba. 
An extremely beautiful shrubby vine, very rare 
in California, but a favorite in the Tropics. The 
distinctive flowers have a beautiful lilac-blue 
calyx like a five-pointed star, upon which is set 
another star of deep violet blue. These flowers 
are borne in showy drooping racemes, 6-8 inches 
long. The bright calyx remains long after the 
flower has fallen giving the impression that the 
vine is bearing two kinds of blossoms at one 
time. Plant in a warm, comparatively frostless 
location and train as a vine or to a stake as a 
beautiful weeping shrub. Fine specimens, $2.50. 
SOLANDRA 
Copa de Leche 
SOLANDRA LONGIFLORA. Similar to the Cup 
of Gold (Copa de Oro) but with smaller leaves 
and of more slender, graceful habit. The flowers 
are also smaller, creamy white with fringed 
edges, making a very attractive vine. $1.00. 
SCHIZOCENTRON 
A Rare New Ground Cover and 
Rockery Plant 
SCHIZOCENTRON ELEGANS. Mexico. A very 
rare and beautiful ground cover and basket plant, 
which while discovered many years ago is still 
almost unknown in our gardens. The plant makes 
a very dense mat of small bright green foliage 
covered during the summer with masses of sin¬ 
gle, rosy purple flowers, looking for all the world 
like Bougainvillea blossoms scattered over a vel¬ 
vet-green carpet. Very useful in the rockery as 
well as a ground cover, and charming in a hang¬ 
ing basket, in which way it can be grown where 
winters are too severe for it to be outside. It 
likes a moist, well drained peaty loam. 2 1 /i-inch 
pots 35c each; $3.50 per dozen. 
j Other rare and unusual vines ( 
• and trailing plants are de- ( 
( scribed in the Climbing and i 
l Trailing Vine section of this ? 
I Catalog. I 
BEAUMONTIA 
Heralds Trumpet 
BEAUMONTIA GRANDIFLORA. Heralds Trum¬ 
pet. India. Imagine, if you can, Easter Lilies 
climbing a trellis or support to the top of a 
house; imagine a bold, beautiful tropical looking 
vine, clothed with handsome large leaves, and 
covered with clusters of pure white, Easter Lilies. 
That will give you some idea of the magnificence 
of this strong, vigorous climbing shrub. Our 
stock plants are in bloom the greater part of 
the year and are always a glorious sight. The 
flowers are fragrant and are useful as cut decor¬ 
ations. This sturdy climber is not particular about 
location, if reasonably free from hard frosts. 
But for difficulty of obtaining plants this Beau- 
montia would now be seen in nearly every gar¬ 
den. Besides its use as a vine it can be trained 
to a stake, and formed into a shapely, columnar 
shrub, where it will freely produce its immense 
white trumpets. Strong, established plants, $2.50. 
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