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“ And overhead the wandering ivy and vine, 
This way and that, in many a wild festoon 
Ran riot, garlanding the gnarled boughs 
With bunch and berry and flower thro’ and thro’.” 
HILE everyone grows bed-flowers, the cultivation of the climbing 
plants in their best uses, indicates the presence of an artistic taste 
not possessed by all persons. How many houses stand bare and 
angular all the season through, without it ever occurring to the 
owner to plant the few vines whose gracefulfy clustering foliage 
would spell the name of Beauty all over his stark walls and angles. 
“ I always look for vines on a man’s house,” says a writer, “ to see whether he has 
a soul.” And then trailers and climbers seem so eager to grow; they long to decor¬ 
ate the homes of men. The art of growing climbing plants lies in giving them a 
proper location, and in making the foliage masses open and delicate, rather than 
dense. If a porch of the house looks a trifle bare, place a hanging-basket beneath it 
containing one or two Begonias, a high-colored Nasturtium, and two or three of the 
prettiest climbers. A pot of climbers and basket plants can be set on a bracket in a 
corner and permitted to trail over the side. Placing a hanging-basket at an open 
window makes a pleasant rustic picture, and piazzas and verandas can be easily con¬ 
verted to bowers by ornamental climbers, and pretty overhanging plants set in pots 
on corner brackets. Many ladies are skilled in the art of these things, and know that 
to surround their homes with flowers is to make themselves doubly attractive. Cover 
unsightly objects in the yard with running vines. In cultivating climbers the first 
lesson is to discover your control of the plants. A little careful handling, cutting, 
and training will dispose them in any desired form and direction. The unshapely, 
dense tangle into which vines are ordinarily permitted to grow is had and needless, 
as is also the entire obscuring of a window often observed. Keep your climbers 
in order from the first. Tie up strings and wires straight and ship-shape. Hanging 
baskets should be well mossed on the bottom and sides, and watered abundantly each 
day. The tender varieties should be sown in February or March in the greenhouse 
or hot-bed, as the display for the season will be in proportion to their early vigor; 
they are as follows: Cobaea, Lophosperum, Maurandia, Thunbergia, Tropmolum, 
etc. 
ABOBRA. 
An elegant climber, allied to the gourd family, with Inconspicuous flowers; but 
the finely cut, dark green foliage, and the small, glossy scarlet fruit, render it highly 
ornamental; half-hardy perennial. 
Abobra.—Very graceful; six feet high.10 cents. 
ASPARAGUS—Climbing. 
The finest of all the hardy climbers. It has the beautiful feathery foliage of the 
ordinary asparagus, in the form of a graceful running vine; invaluable for decorative 
purposes. Hardy perennial. 
Asparagus, Climbing.—Bright red berries. Very desirable. Ten feet... .10 cents. 
AMPELOPSIS. 
Ampelopsis, Veltchli.—A slender-growing variety of the Virginia Creeper. The 
young growth during the Summer is a dark purplish-green, changing in the Fall 
to the brightest tints of scarlet, crimson and orange. It clings to stone-work, 
trees, etc., and is a splendid plant for covering unsightly objects. It attains a 
height of fifty feet. Every year adds popularity to this plant as a climber. This 
is the climbing plant so much used in covering the fronts of houses in Boston. 
Perfectly hardy.15 cents. 
ADLUMIA CIRRHOSA—Mountain Fringe, or Allegheny Vine. 
Adlunila Clrrhosa. 
Cobsea Scandens. 
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An attractive and beautiful plaut, flowering the first season, of graceful habit and 
pale green, delicate foliage, with clusters of small rosy-lilac flowers. Hardy bien¬ 
nial. Fifteen feet.10 cents. 
ARISTOLOCHIA SIPHO—Dutchman’s Pipe. 
A rapid growing plant, with large heart-shaped foliage, and very curious yellow 
and brownish purple flowers, resembling a pipe. Hardy perennial; thirty feet high. 
Per packet, 10 cents. 
CARDIOSPERMUM. 
A curious half-hardy annual from India, called Baloon Vine, or Love in a Puff, on 
account of its inflated capsules. 
Cardiospermum, Hallcacabnm.—Per packet.•..5 cents. 
CLEMATIS. 
Rapid-growing climbers, fine for arbors and verandas, the small varieties flower¬ 
ing in clusters, and are very fragrant. The large flowering varieties are very hand¬ 
some, and covered with beautiful bloom. Soak the seed in warm water for twenty- 
four hours before sowing. Hardy perennials; fifteen feet high. 
Clematis Flammiila, (Virgin’s Bower.)—Producing beautiful clusters of small, 
white, fragrant flowers. Per packet...10 cents. 
Hybrida Grandillora, Mixed.—Handsome large flowering varieties, of beautiful 
colors. Per packet.20 cents. 
CLIANTHUS. 
One of the most beautiful plants in cultivation, with neat compound leaves, and 
drooping clusters of large rich scarlet pea-shaped flowers, each flower being pictur¬ 
esquely marked with a large black cloud-like blotch in front. Half-hardy shrub. 
Cliantlins, Damplerli.—Magnificent; three feet high. Per packet.25 cents 
COB/EA. 
A magnlflcent rapid-growing climber, with beautiful foliage and large bell-shaped 
flowers. Trained on piazzas, arbors, etc., the effect Is grand. Half-hardy perennial. 
Cobiea, Scandens.—Purple lilac. Twenty feet high. Per packet.10 cents. 
Convolvulus Major. Doliclios Lablab. 
CONVOLVULUS MAJOR—Morning Glory. 
The Convolvulus has been known for more than two hundred and fifty years to 
florists, but it Is one of the abiding flowers, and the pretty, pure grace of its bell- 
blossoms is never likely to vanish from our gardens. A very excellent use for Con¬ 
volvulus consists in planting it about the edges of usightly stone walls, a rock or 
other rude object, which it will adorn with a pretty clinging growth; an effect sur¬ 
prisingly lovely to any one who has never tried it. Sow in open ground early In the 
Spring, and train on trellis-work or stakes. Or it may be put in a bed two feet 
apart, when it will spread into a compact mass. In training on twine a diagonal 
pattern is prettier than a row of vertical strings. 
Convolrulug, Aureus Superbns.—Beautiful golden-yellow flowers; six feet high. 
Per packet.10 cents. 
Convolvulus Major.—For the convenience of patrons who often desire this old fa¬ 
vorite in special colors, we, this season, offer the following distinct kinds: 
White, Dark-blue. Blood-red, Striped, Bose and Mixed. Each per packet, 5c. 
CYPRESS VINE—Ipomoea Quamoclit. 
One of our most popular vines, with very delicate Fern-llke foliage, and masses of 
beautiful, small, star-shaped flowers. Sow the seed about the 10th of May, as they 
are apt to rot in the ground if sown too early, or sow early in the greenhouse and 
transplant. Half-hardy annuals. Fifteen feet high. 
Cypress Vine.—White, crimson and mixed. Each per packet.6 cents. 
