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EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. 



SELECTIONS OF EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. 



The Norway Spruce, as a beautiful broad conical tree, of extreme hardihood, and suited to 

 almost any location, commands universal approbation. The Drooping variety, interspersed with 

 the Upright growing one, presents an agreeable contrast. The European White and American 

 White Spruces are still more beautiful, and assume a more spiral and less spreading form, as they 

 advance in growth. The Hemlock, or Weeping Spruce, when allowed to branch from the ground, 

 with ample space for expansion, is one of our most graceful trees. There are many other Spruces 

 of great beauty, but, being more rare, they are not obtainable of sufficiently large size for 

 immediate embellishment. 



Of the Cedars, the most beautiful is the Silvery-leaved Deodar, of graceful form, with 

 drooping branches, and of very rapid growth. Some trees of this species were pai'tially injured 

 here during the past unprecedented winter (55-56), but they have regained their vigor ; and we 

 may rest assured that, when such trees shall have attained size and strength, they will withstand 

 the climate perfectly, and further to the South they will, of course, be permanently secure, even 

 when of the smallest size. The deep-green Deodar forms a more spiral tree, of great beauty, and 

 has proved itself the hardiest of its class, and is also of rapid growth. On this account it is 

 destined to take precedence of the Cedar of Lebanon, whose growth is comparatively slow, with 

 branches much more spreading. Among the species of Cypress, the most lofty and beautiful are / 

 the Pyramidalis and Expansa, so noted for ornamenting the cemeteries of Oriental Countries and 

 of the south of Europe. These two are well suited to localities south of Washington, but are often 

 injured severely in this latitude. 



The most desirable Pines are the White and Red Pines of our own Country, and the Austrian, 

 Pineaster, Scotch, Calabrian, Bhotan, and Cembran, and the Bentham, Sabine, and Spiral Cali- 

 fornian Pines. Of the Junipers the most symmetrical and conical are the Silvery-leaved, Irish, 

 and Swedish, — all of the most hardy character, capable of sustaining the severest northern 

 winters. The Chinese is also quite ornamental, though attaining only a moderate height ; but 

 the Carolina Conical Juniper, or Cedar, will reach a height of thirty feet, with a beautiful head. 

 The splendid Cryptomerias of Japan, with their most graceful drooping foliage, sustain our 

 winters here, but will not succeed further to the north. The American, Siberian, and Chinese 

 Arbor Yitse are all well suited for general adornment, and also for screens and hedges. The two 

 last do not attain to an equal size with the former. Of the Yew family the English Upright, 

 English Spreading, and the Irish, are the principal species of interest ; the former is much the 

 most desirable, and grows more rapidly than any other of its class. 



The Magnolia grandiflora and its varieties produce the most splendid flowers of all the 

 Evergreen family ; and, by binding them in straw, we have preserved fine trees, now of twenty 

 years' growth. 



Evergreen Shrubs. — The most desirable are the Mahonias and Rhododendrons, for their 

 splendid foliage and profusion of bloom, the Aucuba, the various Hollies, Euonymus, and 

 Photinias, and the Tree Box of the difi'erent varieties, for the beauty of their foliage, and for 

 permanent ornament during winter, when they serve so greatly to cheer and enliven the *' Winter | 

 Garden." 



CHINESE TREE P^ONIES-PJIONIA MOUTAN. 



These are the most splendid and showy of all Flowering Shrubs, and among the most rare. 



All are double, unless denoted otherwise. They are also perfectly hardy, and will withstand 

 the winters of our most Northern States. 



Extra large plants, five to ten years' growth, of No. 1 and 2, and of several other varieties, can be 

 supplied at $5 each, and upwards. All are on their own roots, and not ingrafted in the usual 

 defective manner. 



Price. 



1 BANKSII, double rosy, very large, magnificent, protuberant, fragrant 75 to 1 00 



DITTO, larger size 2 00 



2 PAPAYERACEA, poppy flowered, very large, single white, with crimson center 75 to 1 00 

 DITTO, larger size 2 00 



3 ROSEA ODORATA, bright roseate, very large, semidouble, weak growth 2 00 to 3 00 



The following eight very splendid varieties were originated by us from seeds : 



o Banksii pallida plenissima Large rosy blush, splendid, protuberant, 



becomes nearly white 3 00 



6 Banksii coronata plenissima Coronet flowered 5 00 



7 Banksii purpurascens minor Purplish minor Banksian 3 00 



8 Banksii rosacea plenissima .Roseate Banksian 3 00 



9 Papaveracea carnea semiplena Semidouble blush Poppy flowered 3 00 



