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Select Hardy Shrubs. 



The prices quoted are for transplanted bushy stock, to be shipped by express or freight. They are too large to 

 be sent by mail. Those offered at 20c. each will be supplied at $2.00 per dozen, $12.00 per 100. Ti.ose offered at 

 25c. each will be suppHed at $2.50 per dozen, $15.00 per 100. 



JAPANESE MAPLES. 



The most refined and graceful of all shrubs; the most 

 airy and beautiful in habit and the richest in color of 

 foliage of all hardy trees or chrubs. All are of shrub 

 habit, though upon fertile soil they will, after many 

 years, attain a height of 6 to 10 feet. The varieties of A. 

 polymorphum have slender branches, densely clothed 

 with lace-like foliage impossible to describe, in dainty, 

 exquisite beauty. They retain their rich color through- 

 out the summer and in autumn actually glow with ra- 

 diance. 



ACER JAPONICUM AUREUM. Goldex Japanese 

 Maple. — Of slow compact growth, with large palmate 

 translucent leaves of a most charming golden hue, suf- 

 fused with green. 12 to 15 inches. Each, $1.00. 



ACER POLYMORPHUM ATRODISSECTUM. 

 Weepixg Blood-leaved Japanese Maple. — Slender 

 weeping branches and red foliage very finely cut; resem- 

 bling lace. 



ACER POLYMORPHUM ATROPURPUREUM. 



Blood-leaved Japanese Maple. — Of compact growth. 

 Its delicately cut leaves are a rich, brilliant, blood red 

 in the spring, changing to purplish red in summer and 

 turning to glowing crimson in autumn. 



ACER POLYMORPHUM LACINATUM RUBRUM. 

 CUT-LEAVED Blood Maple. — Similar to the Blood- 

 leaved Japanese Maples, except the foliage is finely cut 

 or fern-like. 



ACER POLYMORPHUM OSAKA ZUKI. Similar 

 to A. P. purpureum but a more robust grower. Very 

 valuable. 



ACER POLYMORPHUM PURPUREUM.— Rich 

 purple or maroon foliage; the richest in color of all and 

 very effective. 



ACER POLYMORPHUM SCOLOPENDIFOLIUM. 



— Long graceful deeply cut foliage of a singular silvery 

 green color; distinct and beautiful. 



ACER POLYMORPHUM VERSICOLOR.— The 

 deeply cut fern-like foliage is pink, rose and light green, 

 each leaf being margined with silvery white. 



Prices, except as noted, fine plants, 1 1-2 to 2 feet, 

 each, 75c. 



Handsome plants, 2 to 3 feet, each, $1.25. 



FLOWERING ALMOND. 



Amygdalis Pumila. 



PINK. — An early flowering, very hardy shrub of dwarf 

 habit; remarkable for its profusion of very double rosy- 

 pink blossoms. The flowers resemble small roses. 



WHITE. — Exactly like the preceding, except the flow- 

 ers are pure white. 



Strong plants, 2 feet, each, 30c. 



ALTHEA. 



Rose r,F Sharon. 



MEEHANL— A 



new and valuable 

 shrub with showy 

 foliage. Its leaves 

 are dark green, 

 deeply margined 

 with creamy white 

 and the variega- 

 tion is constant 

 and pure 

 throughout the 

 summer. It 

 blooms freely 

 from July until 

 late October, its 

 flowers being sin- 

 gle and of a 

 pleasing purplish 

 red color. One 

 of the most val- 

 uable shrubs ever 

 produced. (See 

 cut.) 



Bushy plants, 12 

 to 18 inches, 

 each, 25c. 



Strong plants, 18 to 24 inches, each, 4 jc. 



CRESTED BEAUTY.— "Entirely distinct from all 

 other Altheas, being neither a double nor single, but 

 with all the good qualities of both. Color pure white 

 with a bright crimson eye, surmounted with a pure 

 white crest. A wonderful bloomer, producing far more 

 flowers than any other variety." 



JERSEY BLUE. — Large double purplish blue flowers 

 in great numbers. 



LADY STANLEY. — Large, double flowers; pure 

 white with a crimson eye. 



RUBRA PLENA.— Large, double, bright rosy-red. 



Price, except as stated, strong, 2 to 3 feet, each, 20c; 

 Very strong, 3 to 4 feet, each, 25c. 



ARALIA. 



PENTAPHYLLA.— An attractive and useful shrub 

 from Japan. Of rapid growth and with a wealth of 

 finely lobed leaves of refreshing light green color — al- 

 ways clean and attractive — and with numerous sharp 

 spines. Valuable for massing, 1 1-2 to 2 feet, each, 20c. 



SPINOSA. Angelica Tree; Hercules Club or 

 Devil's Walking Stick. — A tall shrub or small tree 

 of upright habit with large pinnate leaves which form 

 into an umbrella-like head — tropical and handsome in ef- 

 fect. It throws up numerous stout, club-like stems, 

 thickly covered with sharp spines and produces large 

 loose clusters of greenish-white flowers in late summer. 

 Odd, unique and interesting, 2 to 3 feet, each, 25c; 3 

 to 4 feet, each, 35c. 



