CHESTNUT HILT, PHILAD’A, PA. 43 
HOUSE COVERED WITH AMPELOPSIS VEITCHII. 
HARDY CLIMBING PLANTS AND VINES. 
Actinidia polygama. Strong-growing climber from Japan, of exceptional value where 
a quick-growing, clean-foliaged plant is desired. Foliage glossy green, and flowers 
white with a purple center. 
Akebia quinata. A charming Japanese climber, with shining sub-evergreen foliage and 
chocolate-colored clusters of fragrant flowers in June. Very desirable. 
Each 35 cents ; $20.00 per 100. 
Ampelopsis quinquefolia (Virginia Creeper). A very rapid climber, with beautiful 
digitate leaves that become rich crimson in autumn. One of the finest vines for covering 
walls, verandas, and trunks of trees. 25 cents each ; $20.00 per 100. 
A. Veitchii (Japan s or Boston Ivy). Foliage three-lobed, glossy, overlapping each 
other and forming a dense sheet of green. When once rooted it grows rapidly, and 
clings by its air roots like the English Ivy. In the fall it is a flame of crimson of all 
shades. Very desirable. Each 25 cents ; $20.00 per 100. 
Aristolochia sipho (Dutchman’s Pipe Vine). A strong grower, with huge cordate 
leaves, six to twelve inches across, thick and shining, that overlap each other, and 
curious, pipe-shaped flowers. A very desirable vine. 75 cents each. 
Six plants of one variety for the price of twelve ; five plants for the price of ten. 
