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PYRACANTHA • Firethorn 



BRILLIANT touch for the winter landscape is the Firethorn, one of nature's live- 

 liest allies in dispersing the gloom of the flowerless days of fall and winter. This is a dense 

 shrub, having sturdy, graceful branchlets armed with stout thorns. It has deep, shiny 

 green foliage. Clusters of white flowers appear in the spring, which form into berry-like 

 fruit of brilliant scarlet-orange in the fall and last until the new year arrives. 



PYRACANTHA coccinea (Scarlet Firethorn). 



Combines the qualities required in the perfect ever- 

 green shrub. Deep, shiny green foliage. Brilliant 

 orange to scarlet berries, dainty white flowers. In 

 its untrained state it makes a low, thick sprawling 

 bush, ideal for the informal planting of rocky slopes, 

 sunny rockeries or borders of shrubs. Thorny, 

 as hedges, they are nearly impassable. The fruit at- 

 tracts birds and masses of these shrubs have been 

 planted on large estates to attract pheasants. Thrives 

 in almost any soil, including limestone. Prefers sunny 

 positions but will grow in the semi-shade. 



P. coccinea (Espalier). Trained to grow on 

 strong, upright supports and form thick sheets of 

 rich foliage, valuable in covering blank and un- 

 sightly walls and fences. Especially attractive in 



fall and winter when the evergreen foliage is thickly 

 studded with small brilliant bunches of orange-red 

 berries. 



P. coccinea (Pyramids). The Firethorn trained 

 into neat pyramids is another proof of the versa- 

 tility of this plant. An evergreen and a prolific 

 bearer of dainty flowers and showy fruit, it has the 

 added virtue of retaining its neat conical shape 

 throughout the year with very little attention and 

 trimming. 



P. coccinea lalandi (Laland Firethorn). Vigor- 

 ous growth, slender branches, attractive white 

 flowers followed by fiery orange-red fruit which 

 lasts well into the winter. Develops into a large in- 

 formal shrub in sunny positions. Prized for its 

 year-round healthy, handsome appearance. 



HYBRID RHODODENDRONS 



^/HE name Rhododendron itself is a happy thought; it being derived from the Greek 

 words "rhodon" and "dendron" meaning rose-tree. It has long been eulogized in literature. 

 Rhododendrons were introduced to the home landscape about two hundred and fifty years 

 ago. Since that time, famed horticulturists, who have traveled the world over in search 

 of rare plants, have discovered a remarkably floriferous species of Rhododendron growing 

 wild in the Tibetan highlands, in fact, even at the base of the magnificent Mt. Everest 

 in the Himalayan Mountains. Since then, the Himalayan Rhododendron has been hybrid- 

 ized with the native Appalachian species, producing the very finest strain of this majestic, 

 broad-leaved evergreen. 



The magnificent clusters of handsome, brilliantly colored flowers of enormous size, borne 

 in May and June, and the general habit of the Rhododendrons when out of bloom with 

 their shapely evergreen foliage of healthy green, makes them one of the best evergreen 

 shrubs. 



The few and simple soil and protective requirements of these plants are inexpensively and 

 quickly attained. The majority of failures is due to the disregard of soil requirements and 



