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LEAMON G. TINGLE, PITTSVILLE, MD. 



HYDRANGEA P. G.— One of the best shrubs ^M 



DECORATIVE SHRUBS AND PLANTS 



Many times you have seen a cozy little home nestling 

 among its vines, flowers, and trees, with an open stretch 

 of lawn. By itself that home would be just a plain little 

 house. Good taste and thoughtful attention rather than 

 money has wrought the change. 



ALTHEA (Rose of Sharon). Stately shrubs of upright habit, 

 attaining- a height of 10 to 15 feet; valuable as single specimens 

 and as screens and hedges, particularly where soil and arid 

 climate do not permit the use of many other shrubs. The 

 blooms, which resemble the hollyhock in form but more refined 

 and not so large, appear in abundance in late summer when 

 few other shrubs are in bloom, and make a good cut flower. 

 The foliage is a fine dark green. The newer varieties are much 

 improved in size and color. 50c each. 



BUDDLEIA (Butterfly Bush). A most beautiful shrub and 

 one that should be in every garden. A splendid shrub for park 

 planting. It makes large shrubs even from small plants the 

 first season. Single plants will often have 50 or more flower 

 spikes the first year. The second year after planting it gener- 

 ally begins to bloom in June and continues throughout the sum- 

 mer until frost nips it. The flowers are produced on long, 

 graceful stems that terminate in tapering panicles of beautiful 

 lilac-colored flowers of miniature size and borne by the hundred. 

 50c each. 



CLETHRA (Sweet Pepper Bush). A pretty little shrub that 

 blossoms freely for several weeks in summer; very fragrant 

 white flowers, in slender racemes; an excellent honey plant 

 for bees. 50c each. 



CORN US (Red Dogwood). Flowers greenish white, in flat 

 cymes, followed by white fruit; bark deep red and very attrac- 

 tive in winter. When planted with other shrubs, the effect in 

 winter is very striking. As a single lawn shrub it Is well 

 adapted, owing to its low branching habit and ornamental broad 

 foliage. 50c each. 



DEUTZIA PRIDE OF ROCHESTER. In early spring the 

 bush is fairly covered with dainty double tassel-like flowers in 

 racemes 4 to 6 inches long, white with the outer petals tinted 

 rose, in a setting of deep green foliage. A vigorous, tall, up- 

 right shrub of easy culture, thriving in any well drained soil. 

 Under the most adverse conditions it will give a fair show of 

 bloom, but place it in a position where it has room to develop 

 and you will be amply rewarded with a profusion of flowera 

 50c each. 



GOLDEN BELL (Forsythia). One of the first flowers to let 

 us know spring Is here. Few If any of the spring flowering 

 shrubs surpass the splendor and brilliancy of the Golden Bell; 

 they are easily grown in almost any kind of garden soil, and 

 have handsome clean foliaere, which is remarkably free from 

 Insects and retnaisis unchanged until late in the fall. 50c each. 



