ANDORRA NURSERIES 
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Standard Wistarias in a Flower Garden 
Vines and Ground Covers 
V INES and climbing roses fill a distinctive need in softening 
and blending architectural forms with the rest of the 
planting about house and garden. The climbing Ivies 
and Evonymus used on uninteresting walls relieves their 
monotony and bareness and other climbers on trellis or arbor 
admirably frame window and doorway in green and blossom. 
Pergolas and arbors shaded with Wistaria, the rapid-grow¬ 
ing Kudzu Vine, the scarlet flowered Trumpet Vine, Clematis 
or Honeysuckle are features of beauty and utility. There can 
be no better or more effective screen against unsightly objects 
than a vine-covered trellis or high fence;—the quick-growing 
Honeysuckle is one of the best vines for this purpose as it 
holds its foliage well into the Winter. 
We find these vines and trailing plants together with some 
of the trailing shrubs of great value in clothing unsightly 
slopes with verdure. These slopes and banks are often a source 
of trouble on account of the surface washing or slipping during 
heavy rains, but the inter-lacing roots of Honeysuckle, Peri¬ 
winkle or Bittersweet will obviate this difficulty. Forsythia 
suspensa, Rosa wichuriana, Lycium chinense and Yellow Root 
are also adapted for this use. 
For carpeting bare patches of soil in shady places where 
grass will not grow we have the evergreen English Ivy, Japanese 
Spurge (Pachysandra) Periwinkle and Lonicera Japonica, which 
form a carpet of green in what would otherwise be an ugly spot. 
One of the most useful and interesting plants for filling in 
odd corners near walls or steps, along the base of house or 
terrace or as a pretty edging plant for Evergreen borders there 
is the very hardy Evonymus in a number of varieties. 
