The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . ers. S. B. Fanning, Jamesport, L. I.—Price List of Choice Farm Seeds. R. D. Hawley, Hartford, Ct.—Ciicular of Tomato. Reisig 4 Hexamer, Newcastle, N. Circular of Seeds, Potatoes and Small Fruits. Edward F. Jones, Binghampton, N. Y.—Catalogue of Scales. S. L. Goodale, Augusta, Me.—Address on Commercial Manures. G. E. Cleeton, New Haven, Ct.—Catalogue of Poultry Breeders and Fanciers. Bennett Sf Davidson, Flatbush, L. I.—Spring Catalogue of New Plants. Suel Foster, Muscatine, Iowa. —Catalogue of Nursery. Jos. M. Wade, Philadelphia


The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . ers. S. B. Fanning, Jamesport, L. I.—Price List of Choice Farm Seeds. R. D. Hawley, Hartford, Ct.—Ciicular of Tomato. Reisig 4 Hexamer, Newcastle, N. Circular of Seeds, Potatoes and Small Fruits. Edward F. Jones, Binghampton, N. Y.—Catalogue of Scales. S. L. Goodale, Augusta, Me.—Address on Commercial Manures. G. E. Cleeton, New Haven, Ct.—Catalogue of Poultry Breeders and Fanciers. Bennett Sf Davidson, Flatbush, L. I.—Spring Catalogue of New Plants. Suel Foster, Muscatine, Iowa. —Catalogue of Nursery. Jos. M. Wade, Philadelphia, Pa.—Price List of Fancy Fowls. F. K. Phenix, Bloomington, 111.—List of Fruit and Flower Plates. Charles uirnold, Paris, Ontario, Canada.—Wheat Circular. Hamlin 4* Barnum, Edgefield Junction, Tennessee—Trade List Cumberland Nurseries. F. L. Perry, Canandaigua, N. Y.—Price List, Spring, 1870. O. J. Weeks, West Webster, N. Y.—Price List of Plants. W. S. Little, Rochestei, N. Y.—Trade List, Sprint, 1870; Mount Vernon Pear Vol. 25. MAY, 1870. No. 287. Climbing Vines. BY THE EDITOR. WHEREVER we plant our arbors and rustic structures, there we find need of the helpof some graceful climber, and though the list from which to choose is large enough,yet few feel the energy necessary to try them and produce the best effect. We havereferred in a previous number to that most beautiful of all varieties, the Scarlet TrumpetCreeper {Bignonia radicans). If our readers have none of it growing, by all means procureit and train it up your porch, or on the side of the house. Its brilliant blossoms arealways a gladsome sight. The Virginia, Creeper. Next in beauty, both a living beauty and a beauty even in death, is the Virginia creeper,or American ivy {Ampelopsis Hederacea). The Virginia creeper, like the bignonia and ivy,throws out roots at the joints by which it fastens itself to anything it touches, but the vineis more hardy, more luxuriant and rapid in gro


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