KELSEY’S HARDY AMERICAN 
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HARDY CREEPERS AND GROUND-COVERING PLANTS, continued 
CLIMBERS 
AMPELOPSIS. See Parthenocissus. 
HARDY NATIVE VINES AND 
BIGNONIA crucigera. Cross Vine. 20 to GO ft. Orange. 
Coni pound evergreen leaves. A showy vine. 
CEBATHA Carolina. Carolina Moonsekd. 5 to 12 ft. 
Greenish; clings to smooth surfaces. Fruit red and 
very showy. Leaves variable in shape. A good climber. 
CELASTRUS scandcns. Bittersweet. 12 to 25 ft. 
Orange. Fruit very showy, bright scarlet, hanging till 
late. Fine for stone walls and banks, 
CLEMATIS coccinea. Scarlet Clematis. 5 to 10 ft. 
Scarlet bell-shaped llowers. June to July, 
crispa. Purple Clematis. I to 12 ft. Bluish purple. 
One of the best. Flowers from May till August, 
scottii. Mountain Leather Flower, rare, 3 to 12 ft. 
One of the tlnest spring sorts. Flowers dee]) blue, 
foliage silky gray and seed-heads very conspicuous, 
llgusticifolia'. Western Vi ruin’s Bower. 5 to 15 ft. 
White. Fine sort, much like C. virgin tana. 
virginiana. Virgin’s Bower. 10 to 35 ft. White. One 
of the fastest growers and tine for covering walls, 
trellises and in shrubbery* Flowers July to August, 
followed by remarkable plumed seed-heads, 
paniculata. 10 to 30 ft. Not native. White. Very fra¬ 
grant showy sort, no less in fruit than in flower. 
.Rapid grower. 
DIOSCOREA villosa. Wild Yam. G to 15 ft. Pale 
greenish yellow. Showy clusters of three-winged 
fruit in fall. Its large leaves turn yellow in autumn. 
GELSEMIUM sempervirens. Carolina Yellow 
Jasmine. Delightfully fragrant flowers, bright yellow 
and very showy in March ami April. Quite hardy if 
afforded winter protection and well worth any care 
given it. 
HDMULUS lupulus. Hop Vine. 10 to 20 ft. Not native. 
Yellow. For outbuildings, and an indispensable, 
very rapid-growing vine. 
LPOMOEA pandurata. Moonflower. 2 to 12 ft. 
White and purple. A good vine for stone walls and 
for ground work. 
LONICERA dioica. Smooth-Leaved Honeysuckle. G to 
50 ft. Purplish. Flowers June to August. Large, 
connate leaves. Makes a good standard weeper, 
flava. Yellow Honeysuckle. 10 to 30 ft. Yellow. 
Fine for ground cover and hanks. Very fragrant. 
Flowers June to August. 
japonica, var. halliana. Hall’s Honeysuckle. 10 to 
30 ft. Not native. White or pink. Very much like 
preceding. An elegant vine. 
RUBUS deliciosus. Canon Blackberry. 1 to 3 ft. Beautiful lobed leaves and in June covered with clouds 
of snow-white flowers almost as large as single roses. Very hardy, 
hispidus. Running Blackberry. G to 12 in. White. Leaves color brilliant shades of crimson in autumn. 
Nearly evergreen. 
laciniatus. Cut-Leaved Blackberry. 6 to S in. Not native. White. Strong grower, elegant cut loaves. 
VACCINIUM erassifolium. Creeping Huckleberry. 3 to S in. White or reddish. Doubtfully hardy but 
an elegant evergreen for damp places. 
VERONICA officinalis. Speedwell. 3 to 10 in. Light 
blue. A prostrate creeper with pubescent leaves and 
pale blue flowers in summer, 
serpyllifolia. Thyme-Leaved Speedwell. 2 to 10 in. 
Pale blue; makes a pretty carpet of green in July. 
VINCA MINOR. Periwinkle. 4 to 6 in. Not 
native. Blue. An evergreen ground-covering 
plant, and particularly under trees and on banks. 
The blue flowers are showy and appear in May. 
Of greatest value and beauty. 
MINOR ALBA. WHITE PERIWINKLE. 4 to 6 in. 
Not native. White variety of above. 
The most graceful White Clematis ( G. virginiana 
Photographed by II. P. K. at Highland* tiurtcry 
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