PITTSVILLE, MARYLAND 61 
You Should Grow And Sell 
The Rare Franklinia 
(Franklinia Alatamaha; Gordonia Alatamaha) 
Owe of Our Gest Sellers 
Franklinia have proved hardy in Toledo, Ohio. 
Our sales of Franklinia have increased more in 
the past three years than that of any plant we sell. 
It is one plant most every one wants once they see 
it and they tell their friends about it too. 
This exquisite fall-flowering tree was brought in 1777 from 
the banks of the Alatamaha River in Georgia to Bartram’s 
garden at Philadelphia. John Bartram, recognizing its 
extraordinary beauty and value, named it in honor of his 
life-long friend, Benjamin Franklin. 
The original grove of Franklinia trees was again visited 
in 1790, but from that day to this no one has seen these trees 
growing in the wild, though many expeditions have searched 
the banks of the Alatamaha for them. 
Franklin’s tree is beautiful in detail and marvelous in 
landscape effect, besides blooming at a season when few 
shrubs or trees are in flower. 
The slender trunk and graceful branches are so muscular 
and sinewy in appearance that one almost expects motion 
aS under a greyhound’s skin. The bark is smooth and dark 
gray, with wavering lengthwise markings of lighter color. 
Each twig develops at its tip a cluster of buds of graduated 
size, like overgrown greenish pearls. Early in August the 
largest of these attain the size of marbles. Then the guard 
petal folds back, still retaining its firm spherical form. From 
this shelter emerge four other petals, satiny, snowy white, 
elaborately frilled and pleated. The snowy, frilly chalice, 
three inches in diameter, holds a sumptuous mass of orange- 
gold stamens and breathes forth a delicate, balmy fragrance. 
Each flower lasts two or three days and then drops cleanly. 
There is a constant succession of bloom till hard frost. We 
frequently get the unusual effect of a tree clad in crimson 
autumn foliage and abundantly starred with white flowers. 
The Franklinia begins blooming when not more than 3 or 4 
feet high. Young trees under favorable conditions increase 
in height a foot or more each season. Specimens 30 feet 
high are known. It develops naturally with several trunks, 
but may easily be trained to a single trunk by removing the 
sprouts which start from the base. 
Franklinia prefers full sun, has proved entirely hardy 
about New York and hardy in favorable locations about 
Boston. It is an especially desirable tree for the small in- 
timate garden, loved and lived in. It is a charming lawn 
tree and the grass may be allowed to grow closely about the 
trunk. It also thrives when planted by pools, lakes and 
streams. Its light elegance of form and color contrasts 
exquisitely with the dark green of conifers. 
Items marked by an asterisk (*) are classed as Lining-Out 
stock. 
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GROWING GOOD AZALEAS 
Azaleas will grow in full sun or in shade. In the sun you 
will have brighter colors and growth will be shorter. We 
prefer a little shade if convenient. The small pot-grown 
plants should be planted about ten or twelve inches apart 
in a prepared bed consisting of about equal parts of good 
acre sol ane peat mcss or rotten leaf-mold, with about one- 
alf shade. 
Azaleas like acid soil with plenty of peat moss or leaf- 
mold in it. As a fertilizer rotten cow manure, cotton-seed 
meal and tankage are good. Use this in early spring and 
keep well mulched with peat moss or leaf-mold and keep the 
plants well watered during dry weather. 
For scale and red spider use Volck, one to fifty. 
If your soil is not acid enough we suggest you use Alumi- 
num Sulphate or Sulphur. 
