LIST OF HARDY ORNAMENTAL SHRUBS FOR 1910. 



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In planning a new or considering- the improvement of an old home one of 

 the first thoughts in the minds of our home-loving people is the very natural 

 desire to make their place attractive and pleasing, a beautiful picture, not 

 only to themselves, but also to others. It usually, then, becomes simply a 

 question of how to secure and maintain the greatest amount of beauty the 

 ground will admit of at a reasonable expense. Shrubbery must be considered 

 and provided for. 



The following Shrubs are adapted to our climate. All are strong and 

 especially prepared for permanent planting, being bushy and well-rooted and 

 in perfect condition. 



AILANTHUS — Tree of Heaven. ' 



A. Glandulosa — An exceedingly attractive plant of rapid, stately growth, with 

 pinnate, feathery foliage, very effective in shrubbery plantations, for which 

 purpose it should be severely pruned every year or two. If allowed to grow 

 it makes a handsome tree. Each 50c; per doz. $5.00. 



ARALIA — Angelica Tree. 



A. Spinosa — Also known as Hercules Club; is a very handsome tropical-looking 

 shrub, having large, finely-cut, feather-like foliage and great clusters of 

 white flowers; very effective in groups of shrubs. Each 50c; per doz. $5.00. 



HERBERTS. 



A very valuable class of 

 shrubs admirably adapted for 

 massing, also excellent for 

 hedges. The flowers are suc- 

 ceeded by handsome berries, 

 which remain on the plants all 

 winter. 



B. Purpurea — A beautiful 

 shrub; purple foliage. 



B. Thunbergii — A dwarf varie- 

 ty with small, compact foli- 

 age; very desirable. 



B. Vulgaris — Common Berbery. 

 Each 25c; per doz. $2.50. 



BEEBERIS THUNBERGII. 



CALYCANTHTJS. 

 Spice Bush or Sweet Shrub. 

 C. Floridus — Also known as the Strawberry Shrub, owing to the exquisite 

 strawberry-like fragrance of its flowers. These are produced in great 

 abundance in earlv summer; color, a deep chocolate. The plant is dwarf 

 and the foliage dense and glossy. Each 25c; per doz. $2.50. 



CHIONANTHUS. 

 . White Fringe. 



C. Virginica — Flowers pure white and very fragrant, produced in fringe-like 

 racemes succeeded by grape-like purple berries. Each 50c; per doz. $5.00. 

 Extra large, Each $1.00. 



AILANTJUTS. 



Except where noted, Extra Large, Bushy Plants of all of the Above Shrubs, each 50 cents; per doi. $5.0O. Smaller size, each, 



25 cents, per doz. $2.50. 



