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PRUNUS SPINOSA PURPUREA 



A new purple-leaved plum which gives promise of becoming 

 a still greater favorite than Pissardi. Flowers small, pink, numer- 

 ous. Habit more compact than Pissardi. Hardy. $1.00. 



SAMBUCUS PUBENS MAXIMUS— (GREAT ELDER.) 



A striking new variety of Elder with immense heads of white 

 flowers; showy and beautiful. $1.00. 



NEW SPIRAEA— AITCHISONII 



(Sorbaria Aitchisonii,) (S. angustifolia) . — Is certainly much more 

 graceful and handsome than the old Spiraea sorbifolia and 

 equals in beauty the tender Spiraea Lindleyana. It is a shrub 

 attaining" 6 feet in height or more, of rather loose a-^d open 

 habit, with graceful, light green foliage and the usually red 

 colored stems topped by ample and lax panicles of white 

 flowers. — Alfred Rekder, in Horticulture. $1.00. 



LILAC GIRALDI. — Newly introduced from North China; flower, 

 pale lilac-white,, fragrant. The earliest flowering lila . $1.50. 



NEW AND RECENTLY INTRODUCED LILACS 



Comprising a very interesting and valuable collection, mostly 

 Mr. Lemoine's celebrated introductions. Our assortment is one 

 of the largest and most complete in the country. $1.50 each. 

 BLEUATRE.— Single, true blue. 

 BOUSSINGAULT.— Double, light blue. 

 CHARLES SARGENT.— Enormous double flowers, violet mauve 



color. 

 CHRISTOPHE COLOMB.— Single, blue; superb. 

 DAME BLANCHE. — Beautiful double white flowers; one of the best. 

 DE MIRIBEL. — Single, large panicles of bluish violet color; very 



dark and rich. Extra. 

 DEUIL D'EMILE GALLE. — Double, enormous flowers, carmine 



mauve. Extra. 

 DUC DE MASSA. — Another extraordinary variety; flowers double, 



light violet color. 

 DR. TROYANOWSKY.— Spikes of hyacinth-like double flowers, 



bluish mauve color. 

 EDMOND ABOUT.— Verv free flowering, double mauve lilac. 

 EDMOND BOISSIER.— Single, dark bluish violet; one of the dark- 

 est sorts. 

 ERZHERZOG JOHANN.— Single, rosy lilac. 

 GAUDICHAUD. — Very large and beautiful, double, light blue; extra 



fine. 

 GUIZOT. — Rosy lilac; early blooming variety. -^ 



JEANNE D'ARC. — Very large spikes of pure white, double flowers; 



superb.. 

 JULES FERRY, — Double, silvery mauve, late flowering; extra. 

 JULES SIMON. — Large, double flowers, mauve lilac. 

 LE PRINTEMPS.— Flowers double, pale rosv violet. 

 LEON GAMBETTA.— One of the earliest to bloom; flowers double, 



rosy lilac. 

 L'ONCLE TOM (Uncle Tom) — Large spikes of single flowers, very 



^ dark purple color. 

 MACROSTACHYA. — Large spikes of single rose lavender flowers. 

 MADAME F. MOREL.— Single lavender. 



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