E. Fred Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower & kitchen garden for 1880 efredwashburnsam1880wash Year: 1880 OENAMEISTTAL CLIMBEES. NO. ABOBRA. Nat. Ord., Cucurbitacece. peice A rare and extremely prettv tnberou? perennial climbing Cucurbitaces with elegant cut glossy dark-green foliage, and small oval vivid scarlet fruits. Suitable lor plantmg out duruig summer, forming beautiful garlands. 7T8 Abobra Virdiflora BALLOON Yl^B (Cakdiospermum). Xat. Ord., Sapindacew. A very pretty climbing plant, remarkable for an inflated membranous capsule from winch it derives the name of Balloo


E. Fred Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower & kitchen garden for 1880 efredwashburnsam1880wash Year: 1880 OENAMEISTTAL CLIMBEES. NO. ABOBRA. Nat. Ord., Cucurbitacece. peice A rare and extremely prettv tnberou? perennial climbing Cucurbitaces with elegant cut glossy dark-green foliage, and small oval vivid scarlet fruits. Suitable lor plantmg out duruig summer, forming beautiful garlands. 7T8 Abobra Virdiflora BALLOON Yl^B (Cakdiospermum). Xat. Ord., Sapindacew. A very pretty climbing plant, remarkable for an inflated membranous capsule from winch it derives the name of Balloon Vine. It answers either for the green- house or open ground. Half-hardy annual. 779 Balloon Vine. White: from India. 5 feet CALA3IPELIS. Kat. Ord., Bignoniacecs. 780 Calampelis Scabra. A very pretty climbing plant from Chili, with oranee- colored flowers; very fine. 10 feet .25 .10 .10 canary-bird flower. CANARY-BIRD FLOWER. Nat. Ord., Tropceolacece. The popular name of this pretty little annual alludes to the supposed resemblance of the flower to a bird with its wings expanded, the spur of calyx representing the head, and the two upper petals the wing. From Mexico. 781 Canary-Bird Flower (TropcBolum Peregrinum). Half-hardy annual. 20 feet . .10 CLITORIA. Nat. Ord., Leguminosce. Splendid free-flowering greenhouse climbei's, with large elegant pea-shaped flow- ers, of great beauty, particularly adapted and very effective for training on trellis- work, wire globes, or any of the numerous contrivances on which plants of this character may be grown' for greenhouse or conservatory decoration. Though pe- rennials, they bloom the first year. 783 Clitoria. Fuaest varieties mixed 25 COB^A. Nat. Ord., Polemoniacece. A rapid-gi-owing climbing plant, with large purple bell-shaped flowers, finely adapted for bedding out in summer; seeds should be sown early, to secure well- established plants by the time the season arrives for planting out. 78? '^bsea Scandens. Tender perennial. 20 fee


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