J. T. LOVETT. LITTLE SILVER, N. J. 



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Broad-leaved Evergreen Shrubs 



These are the most valuable of all the shrubs, possessing as they do, beautiful foliage which remains upon the 

 plant the year round. Moreover, Rhododendrons, Kalmias and Azaleas give a display of bloom that is magnificent 

 bej-ond words to describe. These shrubs are useful for grouping and stand alone for producing interesting and charm- 

 ing winter effects. The plants I offer are all strong, well-developed ones — much too large to be sent by mail. 



AZALEA. 



— A dense, dwarf growing shrub, with slender 

 branches and semi-double flowers of bright, cheerful, 

 rosy-purple, produced in such great numbers as to liter- 

 ally envelope the bush in June. The dense box-like 

 foliage, which is deep green with metallic luster, renders 

 it a charming plant at all seasons of the year, and when 

 in flower it presents a blaze of bloom that is most strik- 

 ing and beautiful. Each flower is a little gem, elegant 

 and neat in its make up. Especially valuable for mass- 

 ing and for bordering beds of Rhododendrons, Kalmias, 

 etc. Entirely hardy. For a gorgeous display of color 

 there is no other hardy shrub that approaches this 

 Azalea. (See cut.) Eushy plants, 9 to 12 inches high, 

 each, 30c; doz., $3.00. 12 to 15 inches high, each, 40c; 

 doz., $4.00. 15 to 18 inches high, each, 5Gc; doz., S5.00. 

 114 to 2 feet high and wide, each, "5c; doz., $7.50. 2 to 

 214 feet high, each, $1.25; doz., $12.50. 



HIXODEGIRI. — A new variety from Japan, quite like 

 A. amoena in foliage and habit, but with large flowers 

 that are bright, fiery-red in color. Bushy plants, 12 to 

 15 inches, each, 75c; doz., $7.50. 



DAPHNE CNEORUM. 



Garlaxd Flower. 



An elegant and refined, dwarf growing shrub. It 

 grows but 12 to 18 inches high^ has neat, attractive foli- 

 age and produces many clusters of fragrant, pink Ar- 

 butus-like flowers in early May. Each, 35c; doz., $3.50. 



BUXUS. Box. 



SEMPEBYTEE>'S.— The well-known Box Tree, with rich^ 

 deep green, glossy foliage. Very effective in all orna- 

 mental planting and especially useful in formal garden- 

 ing, ^luch used in cemetery work. Handsome, dense 

 plants, 18 inches high, each, 50c; doz., $5.00. 2 to 2J4 

 feet, each. 75c; doz., $7.50. 



Pyramids, 3 feet, each, $2.00; 4 feet, each, $2.50. 



Globes, 18 inches, each, $2.00; 2 feet, each, $2.50; 

 2H feet, each. $3.00. 



SUFFEUTICOSA AFBEIS. Golden-leaved Box.— A new 

 form of dense, dwarf, spreading habit. In spring and 

 until midsummer its foliage is a vivid, bright golden 

 yellow, changing to russet in autumn. Very bushy, 20 

 inches, each, $1.50; 24 inches, each, $2.00. Pyramids, 

 3 feet, each, $3.50. 



DWARF OR EDGING BOX. See Hedge Plants. 



Although a native, there is perhaps no other hardy 

 shrub except the Rhododendron, that rivals this in 

 beauty. Like its first cousin. Rhododendron, it retains 

 its foliage in unimpaired beauty throughout the year. 

 Its leaves, which are broad, smooth and glossy, are ex- 

 ceptionally free from insect attack or blemish of any 

 kind. As regards hardiness, it may justly be termed 

 "ironclad." The flowers are borne in large, flat clusters, 

 vary in color from pearly white to soft, shell pink and 

 are uniquely and exquisitely formed, suggesting, both in 

 bud and when expanded, flowers made of certain deli- 

 cate, dainty sea shells. The flowers appear early in 

 June and continue some weeks. 



Kalmia latifolia is beautiful as single specimens, but 

 yields greatest pleasure when properly grouped in con- 

 junction with Rhododendrons, or in mass. 



Nursery grown, bushy plants, 12 to 18 inches, each, 

 75c; doz., $7.50. 



Special prices for collected plants of superior quality 

 in car load lots promptly given, upon request. 



LEUCOTHOE CATESBAEL 



(Andromeda Catesbaei.) 

 Among the most elegant and graceful of broad-leaved 

 Evergreens. The fleshy, glossy, bright green leaves are 

 evenly disposed on long recurved spreading branches, 

 and turn to rich bronze in autumn where exposed to the 

 sun. The dense racemes of white bell-shaped flowers 

 appear all along the branches at the axils of the leaves. 

 Nursery grown plants, 12 to 18 inches, each, 35c; doz., 

 $3.50. 



