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The Garden Magazine, March, 1923 
Twining Bowers of Beauty 
About Your Home 
are yours for the choosing. You need only select wisely from the lovely 
climbing vines which Nature has so generously provided. 
Trees, porches, pergolas, trellises, walls, stumps, fences and steep banks can 
be transformed into picturesque landscape adornments through our fine 
Polygonum Auberti and Climbing Hydrangea(SchizophragmaHydrangeoides). 
Polygonum Auberti 
blooms in September when other flowers 
are fading. Really remarkable effects can be 
produced on old trees. Its pure snowy-white, 
large trussed flowers, borne in long racemes, 
in full bloom give the effect of a living mass 
of hoar frost against a green background. 
Hardy. Grows rapidly. 75 cents each; $7.50 
per dozen F.O.B. Pittsburgh. 
Our Climbing Hydrangea 
is one of the rarest and most beautiful climb¬ 
ing vines. Reaching out like ivy by means of 
aerial rootlets, Climbing Hydrangea is most 
splendidforornamentingporchesand for cov¬ 
ering unpainted brick and stone walls and old 
trees. Begins blooming in June. Large white 
flower heads. Hardy. Foliage good all season. 
$1 each; $10 per dozen F.O.B. Pittsburgh. 
Hardy Plants, Flowers, Evergreens and Other Shrubs of all kinds are 
described in our fascinating catalog. Write for your copy, or fill out and 
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NURSERY CO. 
505 Magee Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. 
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Climbing Hydrangea 
Alexander’s 
Dahlias 
“A Hundred Forms and a 
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Of course you want a Dahlia Garden this 
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A “Sure to Bloom” Collection for $1.00 
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F. A. Walker* lavender-pink Decorative. 
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Libelle, purple Cactus. 
Rose-pink Century, pink Single. 
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27-29 Central St., East Bridgewater, Mass. 
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