CHOICE HARDY SHRUBS 
We offer here but a- few specialties in Hardy Shrubs for spring planting. We do not recommend the general planting of 
deciduous shrubs in spring. Our Autumn Catalogue, issued early in September, will contain a fuil and comprehensive list of 
desirable varieties, and delivery of these can be made during the autumn months when the plants are in a dormant condition. : 
Buddleia Variabilis Amplissima. Grows taller and more slender 
than Vcttehiana. Probably more graceful in appearance, the loosely 
arranged flower spikes are of a brighter reddish-violet. 
Buddleia Variabilis Veitchiana (Butterfly Shrub or Summer Lilac). 
One of the most desirable summer flowering shrubs, beginning to bloom 
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in July, it continues until cut by severe frost. The flowers are of a 
pleasing shade of violet-mauve, and are borne in 
dense cylindrical spikes, which, under liberal cul- 
tivation, are from 12 to 15 inches in length by 3 
inches in diameter; it succeeds everywhere and 
flowers freely the fitst season planted, and is always 
admired. ; ; e 
Price. Either of the above, 30 cts. each; $3.00 
per doz.; $20.00 per 100. 
Crategus Pyracantha Lalandi. This is a se- 
lect variety of the Evergreen or Fiery Thorn, pro- 
ducing masses of brilliant orange-scarlet berries. 
We have prepared a lot of plants which should 
fruit freely another season. 50 cts. each; $5.00 
per doz. i 
Hypericum Patulum Henryi. A new hardy 
St. John’s Wort of shrubby habit, growing from 
23 to 4 feet high, producing masses of large 
clear yellow flowers during July and August, and 
retaining its neat foliage until late in the Autumn, 
A most desirable Shrub. 50 cts. each, 
Note.— Prices on Shrubs and all other plants 
include boxes and packing and delivery to trans- 
portation company in Philadelphia. 
ALTHEA WILLIAM R. SMITH 
Abelia Chinensis Grandiflora. A choice small Shrub of graceful 
habit, producing through the entire summer and fall months white 
tinted lilac heather-like flowers in such abundance as to completely cover 
the plant. 50 cts. each. 
Althea William R. Smith. Everyone will be pleased with this 
splendid giant-flowering variety; one of our own introductions. 
The habit of the plant is ideal, naturally forming attractive, symmetrical, 
bushy specimens, while the glistening pure white flowers are of giant size 
compared to all other sorts, being fully 4 inches in diameter under ordi-- 
nary cultivation, and open out flat or salver-shaped quite different from 
the older types which only partially expand; these large, showy flowers 
are produced in great profusion from early in July until late in September, 
and are very conspicuous at a period when comparatively few Shrubs are 
in bloom. Two-year-old plants, 50 cts. each; $5.00 per doz. 
Azalea Amoena. This little gem is practically evergreen, and in late 
spring the plants are literally smothered with masses of rosy crimson 
flowers. We offer bushy spreading plants, 12 inches in diameter, $1.00 
each; $10.00 per doz.; $75.00 per 100; 15 inches in diameter, $1.30 
each; $15.00 per doz.; $100.00 per 100. 
— Ledifolia Alba. A choice hardy variety, producing in late spring 
large pure white flowers similar to the well-known Azalea Indica Alba. 
It is very free flowering, and is valuable to plant in connection with 
high-colored Azaleas and Rhododendrons, or as an individual specimen. 
Strong bushy plants, 15 inches high, 75 cts. each; $7.50 per doz. 
— Yodogawa. This charming species is a perfect gem. It grows about 
3 feet high, and early in May, before all other varieties, is literally cov- 
ered with semi-double lavender-pink flowers, a shade at once distinct 
from all others and very pleasing, Strong plants, $1.50 each; $15.00 
per doz, ; Buppvera (Butterfly Shrub) 
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