Hardy Les 
and Climbers 
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, or 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 $3.25, 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. 

AMPELOPSIS - Ivy 
Lowi (Miniature BostonIvy) Each $0.85, Three $2.35, Doz. $8.50 
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 
very rapid growth, and clings to the smoothest surface with the tenacity 

of Ivy. 
Strong, 3-year-old plants Each $0.60, Three $1.75, Doz. $6.00 
Nice plants from 5-inch pots Each $0.65, Three $1.85, Doz. $6.50 
Veitchi purpurea Each $1.00, Three $2.75, Doz. $10.00 
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 
Clematis, Mrs. Robert Brydon (See page 151) colorful. Only a limited number available. 
BIGNONIA - Trumpet Vine 
Mme. Gallen - Each $1.50, Three $4.00, Doz. $15.00 
The Scarlet Trumpet Vine, Bignonia Radicans, is one of the popular 
vines found growing on many fences, barns or stone walls. It has been 
discontinued by us, however, in favor of the much lovelier hybrid, 
Mme. Gallen. The blooms of Mme. Gallen are open, flaring flowers 
22 to 3 inches across and grow in clusters all summer long. The color 
is rich apricot, tinted orange, handsome and showy against the fine 
foliage of the plant. No insects bother it. It is clean, quick growing 
and requires no support. It will fasten itself to brick or wood. Is per- 
fectly hardy but likes a sunny location. You will never fail to admire 
its flowers throughout the summer. 

Graceful Ampelopsis Lowi 
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CELASTRUS - Bittersweet or Wax Work 
One of our native climbing plants, of rapid growth, succeeding in almost 
any situation, sun or shade. Discontinued in favor of: 
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. 

FOOD FOR THOUGHT 
As Well as For Your Flowers 
Plants, anything that grows in the soil, are exactly the same in their 
food needs as humans. There are plenty of what might be called the 
shot-in-the-arm kinds of ready mixed fertilizers. But, they are mostly 
only stimulants. 
What your plants need is a balanced organic food. Not just a stimu- 
lant. They need one containing in right amounts, those things that 
make plenty of strong roots, produce good sturdy stalks, thrifty foliage 
and an abundance of good sized blooms. 
That's exactly the kind of Plant Food we use at Wayside. Much of 
our success in growing such unfailingly fine plants is due to it. 
What it has done, and is doing for our 600 miles of plants, it will 
do for your garden. q 
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