FARQUHAR'S NEW AND INTERESTING PLANTS for 1930 



CHERRY YEDOENSIS EDGING THE TIDAL BASIN, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Japanese Flowering Cherries 



(PRUNUS OR 

 CERASUS) 



We Americans are just beginning to appreciate the marvelous loveliness of the Flowering Cherries which centuries of 

 painstaking, beauty-loving Japanese have evolved from their native wildings. They are quick-growing, very early-flowering 

 trees, unbelievably prolific in flowers of enormous size and inexpressible delicacy of habit and color. 



AVIUM ALBO-PLENA. Handsome, medium-sized, ornamental 

 tree bearing large, double, white flowers. One of the most 

 beautiful flowering shade trees. 4 to 5 ft., $4.50 each. 



BENI-HIGAN. Spring Cherry. Very early blooming variety 

 with lovely, small, blush-pink flowers. A highly ornamental, 

 dwarf, flowering tree. 4 to 5 ft., $4.50 each. 



KWANZAN (Sekizan). This showy variety forms a spread- 

 ing, bushy tree if given 

 room to develop. The 

 flowers are borne in 

 drooping clusters, are 

 very large and double. 



A rare variety. 4 to 5 ft.. 



KWANZAN, continued 



and deep old-rose in color. 

 $4.50 each. 



SIEBOLDI. A vigorous, late-flowering variety with large, 

 double, pink flowers which are very attractive. A popular 

 Cherry for avenue or lane planting. 4 to 5 ft., $4.50 each. 



YEDOENSIS. Yoshitio Cherry. A splendid, quick-growing 

 sort, covered early in the season with fragrant, double 

 flowers, in color, pure pink shading to blush-white. Eventu- 

 ally forms a spreading crown more than 50 feet through. 

 4 to 5 ft., $4.50 each. 

 Collection of one plant each of the above 5 varieties, $21 



JAPANESE V/EEPING CHERRY, Shidare- 

 Higan (P. subhirtella pendula). One of the 

 earliest of all Flowering Cherries, bearing deep 

 pink, single blooms in the greatest profusion. 

 The gracefully arching branches droop almost 

 to the ground and the flowers are produced 

 before the leaves appear in spring. Standard 

 Form (umbrella-shaped), 2-yr. heads, grafted 

 on 5 to 6-ft. stems, $7.50 each. 



Polygonum ^yiuherti 



SILVER LACE VINE 



A rapid-growing vine, climbing gracefully on a 

 trellis, tree-trunk, an arch, or any other support. 

 It will rapidly climb 20 feet or more, with fresh 

 green foliage, lightly bronzed at the tips, and a 

 profusion of silvery white, lacy flowers in erect 

 sprays rivaling the Clematis paniculata which 

 blooms at approximately the same time in 

 August or September. $i;50»each; $12.50 for 10. 



POLYGONUM AUBERTI (Silver Lacu Vine) 



