AUTUMN CATALOGUE, 1913. 



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HARDY ORNAMENTAL SHKUBS-Cont/nued. 



Philadelphus nanus aureus. Golden Mock Orange. 

 This variety has fohage of golden yellow which 

 holds its color even when fully exposed to the sun, 

 but gradually becoming greenish towards autumn . 



Privet Californian. Ligustrum Ooalifoliiim. This is 

 the most commonly used hedge plant, although it is 

 sometimes winter killed in New England. It is 

 valuable for planting near the sea where many other 

 shrubs fail to thrive. It is of strong, bushy growth 

 with luxuriant, glossy, rich green foliage and showy 

 racemes of pure white fragrant flowers, although 

 commonly kno«-n as Californian Privet, it is really a 



native of Japan 



Chinese. Ligustrum Ihota. A very hardy shrub 

 with dark shining green foliage and pure white 



flowers, sweetly scented 



Regelianum. A dwarf spreading variety of the pre- 

 ceding with the branches of more horizontal habit, 

 makes a beautiful symmetrical specimen shrub . 



Prunus Japonica Flore albo pleno. Double White- 

 flowering Almond. Well-known and highly es- 

 teemed for its graceful, erect, wiUow-Uke branches; 

 profusely covered in May with large white double 

 flowers 



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S.35 $350 



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Japonica flore rubro pleno. Double Red-flowering 

 Almond. Double rose-like flowers covering the 

 slender branches in great profusion before the leaves 

 appear 



Pissardi. Purple-leaved Plum. The young leaves are 

 of deep crimson changing to coppery-red. One of 

 the best of the red or purple-leaved shrubs some- 

 times attaining the size of a small tree. 



Triloba. Double-flowering Plum. A showy and in- 

 teresting tail-growing shrub bearing in ^Iay on its 

 long slender branches a wealth of lovely large pink 

 double flowers. One of the finest spring-blooming 

 shrubs 



35 3-50 



3 50 



500 



Rhodotypus kerrioides. White Kerria. A bushy 

 shrub with snow-white flowers appearing late in 

 summer 



Rhus cotinus. Purple Fringe. Smoke Bush. A taU 

 shrub bearing masses of misty smoke-colored flowers 

 in June 



Robina hispida. Rose Acacia. Long clusters of fra- 

 grant rose flowers in May; very ornamental 



Ribes aureum. Yellow Current. Esteemed for the 

 spicy fragrance of its golden yeUow flowers which 



are followed by black edible fruit 



Sanguineum. Flowers red 



Sambucusaurea. GoldenElder 



.50 ] 5.00 



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 •35 

 ■35 



Spiraea Van Houttei. 



Syringa, Large-flowered. 



Spirea arguta. While all the spireas are valuable fori Each 

 their easy culture, and floiiferous character, this! 

 variety is one of the earliest and most graceful of the! 

 genus, its slender branches becoming covered with 

 i nnumerable pure white tiny flowers early in spring $ . 35 



Bumaldi. .-^ dwarf Japanese variety of vigorous 



growth. Flowers pink; July 35 



Callosa. Deep rose; grows freely, and flowers nearly 

 all summer 



Callosa alba. White. May 



Anthony Waterer. BrilHant rosy carmine flowers 

 in dense clusters; blooms all summer .... 



Opulifolia. Strong growing shrub with white flowers 

 along the stem. Useful for screening purposes . 



Opulifolia aurea. White flowers in clusters; golden 

 foliage; May ... . 



Prunifolia flore pleno. Bridal Wreath. A beautiful 

 erect-growing shrub with lanceolate leaves, bearing 

 in May pure wlaite double flowers in great profusion^ .35 



Reevesii flore pleno. A spreading shrub of medium | 

 growth with deUcate lanceolate foliage. In Alay 

 the plant is completely covered with large round 

 clusters of pure white flowers . . 35 



Thunbergii. Of dwarf compact habit with slender 

 somew'hat drooping branches densely covered with 

 fine long narrow leaves, flowers very early in spring 

 when the plant is a mass of snow^- whiteness . 



Van Houttei. By many this is regarded as the finest 

 of all spireas and it is assuredly one of the most es- 

 teemed shrubs in cultivation. It forms an erect 

 bush with graceful arching branches well covered 

 with neat rich green foliage and in early summer a 

 profusion of large pure white flower clusters; very 

 hardy and a most effective shrub . 

 E.\tra large plants .... 



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