

Oriental Plane. A tree of which there is a greater 

 number in cultivation or for shade than there are to 

 be found growing wild. One of the very best of all trees 

 for street planting. Has a very wide round-topped 

 head and heavy, thick trunk and branches. The bark 

 is whitened. 7 to 8 ft., 60 cts.; 8 to 10 ft., 75 cts. 



Tulip Poplar. Grows large, with a rounded top. 

 Blooms early in the spring with fuzzy little blossoms. 

 In the fall, just after the first frosts, the colors are very 

 fine. Leaves are large, and both leaves and branches 

 grow very thick and close. 6 to 7 ft., 50 cts. each, 

 I4 for 10; 8 to ID ft., 75 cts., ^6 for 10. 



Smoke Tree, Purple Fringe (Rhus Cotinus). 

 Pretty tree or shrub — between the two — with pale 

 purple flowers and red and yellow foliage after the first 

 flush of spring; blossoms in long, loose clusters, which 

 soon become feathery- edged and conceal their true 

 outline. 3 to 4 ft., 50 cts. each. 



Texas Umbrella Tree. A rapid grower, with hand- 

 some shape, handsome flowers and attractive fruit. The 

 flowers are lilac colored, and come in April, in graceful 



panicles, and are followed by yellowish, opaque berries. 

 Dense, round spreading umbrella-like head. 3 to 4 ft., 

 75 cts.; 4 to 5 ft., |i. 



Cut-Leaved Weeping Beech. This tree is tall, 

 splendid, vigorous growing, with branches drooping, 

 and is odd and firm, foliage deeply cut and the bark 

 silvery white. 6 to 8 ft., $1 each; 8 to 10 ft., $2 each. 



Black Walnut. Walnut trees are handsome and 

 useful for ornament, or in groves for combined profit and 

 appearance; noble, with a straight trunk, and a regular, 

 shapely round-topped crown. The leaves are yellow- 

 green, and early turn entirely yellow. Nuts here and 

 there in pairs or in threes or singly. 2 to 3 ft., 25 cts. 

 each, I2 for 10, $15 per 100; 3 to4ft.,3Sc. each, I3 for 10, 

 I20 per 100; 4 to 5 ft., 50C. each, $4 for 10, I30 per 100. 



English Yew. Travelers in England notice these 

 low, dark-green old trees everywhere. They are not 

 so common here, but, as they do well, and offer splen- 

 did chances for trimming into any odd shape or form, 

 they should be used extensively. 18 to 24 in., 40 cts. 

 each, $2, for 10, 2 to 3 ft., 50 cts. each, $4 for 10. 



SHRUBS 



Japanese Azalea {Azalea mollis). A shrub that is 

 literally covered with flowers in the spring, before 

 those of the Rhododendron, and which compare with 

 climbing roses in size and substance. Almost every 

 color, hardy; 15 to 25 buds, 12 in., 50c. each, I5 per doz. 



Bay Trees. Small trees usually grown in tubs and 

 trained either as pyramids from the ground up, or as 

 standards with straight trunk and round head. Hardy 

 outside only in the South. We imported a choice lot of 

 trees from Europe. 40- to 44-inch stems and 30-inch 

 crowns at 16 each, $10 for 2. 



Boxwood. For single specimens this is a large shrub 

 which can be trimmed into most any shape desired. 

 Grows nicely and evenly, and very dense. 25 cts. each, 

 I2 for 10, I15 per 100. 



Hydrangea paniculata grandiflora. A grand 

 and showy shrub which gives a splendid effect in a 

 border or bed, singly or massed. The colors of flowers 

 change as the season advances — in spring they are the 

 pink and white of youth, while by the time Autumn 

 comes they have reached the bronze of old age. Flow- 

 ers in large clusters, pruned. 18 to 24 inches, 25 cts. 

 each, $2 for 10, I15 per 100. 



Blue Hydrangeas (Japanese Hydrangea). As they 



grow around our front porch, they have very blue 

 flowers. The foliage is intense shiny green, and the 

 whole shrub is very showy. South they stand the cold, 

 but North require protection. 35 cts. each, I3 for 10. 



Cherry Laurel. A small tree with twisted, bushy 

 branches, and handsome, shining foliage. In April 

 or May bears hosts of white flowers resembling cherry 

 blossoms; does well in tubs, sometimes called the Mock 

 Orange of the South. Will not stand zero weather. 3 to 

 4 ft. $3 each, $5 for 2. Dwarf pyramid form I2 each. 



Magnolia (Soulange's). A hybrid tree-shrub, hand- 

 some in leaves and flowers. Flowers come and go before 

 the leaves expand. Blossoms white with rosy tints, 

 fragrant, large cup-shaped. $1 to I3 each. 



Hall*s Japan Magnolia (Starry Magnolia). A tree- 

 shrub with spreading branches, like the cucumber 

 tree. It has the Magnolia habit of blooming in the very 

 early spring before the leaves come out. Fragrant 

 flowers 3 inches across. 3 to 4 ft., ^i each, $g for 10. 



Ros'e of Sharon (Althea). Best shrub for flowers 

 in late summer, Blossoms in great profusion and 

 in all colors, from white to dark maroon. Grows tall; 

 branches stand up. Assorted colors. 25 cts. each, 

 |i8 per 100, I150 per 1,000. 



Three-year-old untrimmed Privet hedge on one of our farms. This is 8 feet high, and screens an ugly barn from a handsome 

 house and lawn. Fifty yards long, cost to date for plants and all expense, only $12 — less than a fence, and is much handsomer. 



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