. Currie's farm and garden annual : spring 1918 43rd year. Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. LIST OF HARDYtCLIMBING VINES FOR 1918. 85 HARDY CLIMBING PLANTS AMPELOPSIS A. Veitchii (Boston Ivy)—This beautiful climbing plant of Japanese origin is a variety of the Virginia Creeper, but very slender and clings very closely to brick and stone work, rapidly attaining a height of even 50 feet. The leaves are small purplish green in summer, changing
. Currie's farm and garden annual : spring 1918 43rd year. Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. LIST OF HARDYtCLIMBING VINES FOR 1918. 85 HARDY CLIMBING PLANTS AMPELOPSIS A. Veitchii (Boston Ivy)—This beautiful climbing plant of Japanese origin is a variety of the Virginia Creeper, but very slender and clings very closely to brick and stone work, rapidly attaining a height of even 50 feet. The leaves are small purplish green in summer, changing in fall to the most beautiful tints of crimson and orange. In our northwestern climate the plant requires a slight protection during the first two or three winters, but subsequently it is perfectly hardy. Large plants, each 50c; per doz. $ Extra strong plants, each 75c; per doz $7. 50 A. Engelmanni—A very desirable, extremely hardy variety. The foliage resembles that of the Virginia Creeper, although not quite so large, and is remarkable for the bril- liancy of its colors in fall. Like the Boston Ivy the plant will cling without artificial support to brick or stone. Strong plants, each 50c; per doz. $ Large 3 year- old plants, each 75c; per doz $7. 50 A. Quinquefolia (Woodbine or Virginia Creeper)—A well known very hardy vine of rapid growth. Very valuable as a screen for porches, a covering for fences, trellises, old stumps and the like. With the approach of autumn its five-clustered leaves turn a brilliant scarlet. Strong plants, each 35c; per doz. $ Extra large plants, each 50c;^per doz $5. GO ARISTOLOCHIA. A. Sipho—(Dutchman's Pipe)—A magnificent, rapid growing, hardy vine, with large, light green, heart-shaped foliage. Its flowers are of a brownish color, resembling a pipe in shape, hence its name. One of the best for verandas, archways, etc. Price each 75c; per doz $ BIGNONIA TECOMA—Trumpet Vine. ' B. Radicans—The well-known and very popu
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