30 Ornamental Foreign Shrubs. 



grown in this country in Texas, and because of its broad spreading 

 top — a characteristic well shown in the illustration. 50c to $1 



Grevillea robusta, a beautiful tree for the lawn or sidewalk, is 

 a native of Australia, of rapid growth, and attains a hight of one 

 hundred and fifty feet. It resists drouth in a remarkable degree. 

 The rich orange yellow trusses of flowers add not a little to its 

 attractiveness — a feature fully appreciated by the busy bee and 

 the more brilliant hummer. In the east it is greatly prized as a 

 greenhouse pot plant because of its fern-like foliage and sym- 

 metrical and graceful habit of growth. 10c to $1 



The flowering crab apple(P5 T rus Parkmanni) makes a beautiful 

 tree, and the flowers when open droop on slender stems in grace- 

 ful clusters like the cherry. The buds are a deep carnation, the 

 flowers semi- double. The rose crab is now generally catalogued 

 as Pyrus spectabilis. The illustration on next page imperfectly 

 shows the beauty and grace of its sprays of bloom. $1 



The Gold-dust tree (Aucuba Japonica) is a handsome green- 

 house shrub, adapted to out- door life with us, and is one of our 

 very best foliage plants. It is a native of Japan and China, the 

 green leaves flaked or margined with, golden yellow. 50c to $1 



Swainsona alba is a dainty shrub, worthy of wide culture 

 because of its beautiful foliage, its small and sj^mmetrical growth, 

 and its spikes of pure white, pea-like flowers. It is destined inev 

 itably to become a great favorite. 25c 



Breath of Heaven (Diosma alba — from dios, divine, and osme, 

 odor) is a shrub admired by man}- for its heath-like foliage which 

 yields a delightful but powerful perfume. When in bloom the 

 plant is completely covered with star-like, white flowers, which 

 are useful for cut flower work. 25c to $1 



THE ARAUCARIAX PIXES. 



Few plants can compare with the noble genus of araucarias 

 for symmetry of growth and elegant proportions. All the species 

 are among the choicest of conservatory plants in the United 

 States and Europe, while here they are grown successfully in the 

 open ground without winter protection. 



The araucarias are of very slow growth, but when mature are 

 very large trees. It is very rarely that this fact is considered 

 when one is planting them. In consequence, we see these beauti- 



