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Fy, View 
and Glimbers 
Much of the charm of English homes and gardens is due to the liberal 
use of vines. Unsightly buildings, raw corners, crude fences, old posts and 
stumps, unsightly rock piles, are all easily transformed into points of beauty 
and interest when covered with a vine of some sort. The smallest garden 
affords ample opportunity for their use. No matter how small and humble 
a home or cottage may be, it is made bigger and more beautiful because 
the owner planted a few vines to grow up or over it. Many a large build- 
ing, er a forbidding, cold, big house, or an ugly bridge, or an embankment 
is made beautiful when it is used as a support or a place on which to grow 
vines. Look around in your garden, take a good look at your porch, bare 
walls, or back door and see if they would not look much better with a 
suitable vine growing on them. Vines soften lines and create beauty. The 
expense is small and the returns are big. 
ACTINIDIA 
Arguta (Silver Vine) Each $1.25, Three $3.50, Doz. $12.50 
A very desirable hardy Japanese climber of strong vigorous growth. Dark 
green, shining foliage and greenish white flowers with purple centers 
which are followed by clusters of edible fruit of figlike flavor. An ex- 
cellent plant for covering arbors, trellises, etc., where a rapid and dense 
growth is desired. Strong plants. 
AKEBIA 
Quinata Each $0.60, Three $1.70, Doz. $6.00 
One of the most graceful of our hardy climbers, producing in early spring 
numberless bunches of violet-brown flowers which have a pleasant cin- 
namon odor. 
AMPELOPSIS - Ivy 
Lowi (Miniature Boston Ivy) Each $0.85, Three $2.25, Doz. $7.75 
The small-leaved Boston Ivy is a charming self-clinging and quickly 
climbing vine. The leaves are small, palmlike and deeply lobed, turn- 
ing into beautiful autumn tints before falling. This variety is espe- 
cially well adapted to cover house walls as well as stone gate posts or 
low walls. The close fitting short-stemmed leaves do not allow birds 
to nest. Its effect is tracery-like and does not completely cover the 
brick or stonework. It is quickly replacing the common Boston Ivy 
or Veitchi variety, because it is so much more charming. 

Veitchi 
(Boston Ivy.) The most popular climbing plant for covering brick walls, 
stone or wooden walls, trees, etc. When it becomes established it is of 
yey rapid growth, and clings to the smoothest surface with the tenacity 
of Ivy. 
Strong, 3-year-old plants Each $0.60, Three $1.50, Doz. $5.00 
Nice plants from 5-inch pots Each $0.65, Three $1.75, Doz. $5.50 
Veitchi purpurea Each $1.00, Three $2.75, Doz. $9.25 
A new vigorous grower, with richer and more intensely colored foliage in 
fall; a rare, beautiful vine. The young spring growth is also much more 
colorful. Only a limited number available. 
BIGNONIA - Trumpet Vine 
For covering unsightly places, stumps, rock work, old fences or wherever 
a showy naturalistic flowering vine is desired, the Bignonia will be found 
very useful. The flowers are large, attractive and borne profusely when 
the plant attains a fair size. 
Grandiflora Each $1.50, Three $4.25, Doz. $13.00 
Wide open and flaring trumpet-shaped flowers 3 to 4 inches across in 
clusters of a dozen or more cover this vine throughout the summer 
months. The color is flesh to orange inside, orange-yellow outside, bright 
orange-red veins in the yellow throat of the trumpet. A superb and 
very hardy vine of great beauty. 
Grandiflora, Mme. Gallen Each $1.75, Three $4.95, Doz. $17.50 
This is the reddish orange flowered form. The blooms are 214 to 3 inches 
across and several shades darker than those of Grandiflora. It is easy to 
grow, perfectly hardy, does well anywhere and flowers throughout the 
entire summer. Its tawny reddish orange flowers never fail to be admired. 
Radicans Each $0.50, Three $1.40, Doz. $4.50 
Dark orange flowers all summer and fall; free blooming, very hardy vine. 
CELASTRUS - Bittersweet or Wax Work 
One of our native climbing plants, of rapid growth, succeeding in almost 
any situation, sun or shade. 
Loeseneri (Chinese Bittersweet) 
Each $1.50, Two $2.75, Doz. $15.00 
Most prolific fruiting variety known. This new importation is a rare 
species from Central and Western China. The clean leaves are glaucous 
green and somewhat larger than those of the common Bittersweet. 
It is the most prolific fruiting kind we know. In autumn, yellow and 
orange-scarlet berries cover the vine all over instead of in occasional 
small clusters as in the common Bittersweet. It’s a sure fruiter, but 
we recommend you plant two plants in one hole and take advantage 
of the resulting cross pollination, which gives still more fruit. 
Scandens (American Bittersweet) 
Each $1.00, Two $1.75, Doz. $10.00 
Attractive light green foliage and yellow flowers in June, followed in 
eutunn with bright orange fruits, which usually remain on the plant 
all winter, 
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