This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V28", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
This rather new and and still scarce climbing plant, has flowered freely in several places this year, and promises to be a valuable addition to our already large list of climbing plants.
The foliage and habit is very much like the "Bitter-Sweet," celastrus scandens; but the flowers are in clusters of rather large, waxy white flowers, sweet, and showy. Though we have many whiteflowered plants of the "Vine" class, there is some peculiarity about the growth of this which makes it attractive. It flowers in June.
 
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