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CROMWELL GARDENS, CROMWELL, CONN. 



SELECT HARDY SHRUBS— Continued 



BUDDLEIA VEITCHIANA 



A great improvement over the old Buddleia, pro.iuciiig 

 clusters of large, sweet-scented flowers, measuring twelve to 

 eighteen inches in length; of an attractive violet mauve 

 shade, with orange yellow center. Vigorous and hardy. 



Strong plants: 50c. and 75c. each, $5.00 and $7.50 per doz. 



BUXUS SEMPERVIRENS. Boxwood 



Excrll,'!,! -lll.j.M 



favonfi- iiiH.k- am 



shaped plalil- air 

 hardy garden, whei 



Pyramid-shaped Boxwood. 



S2.00 and $2.50 each. 

 Pyramid-shaped Boxwood. 



S7.50 and SS.OO eacli. 

 Bush-shaped Boxwood. 



and $1.00 each. 



lor iilaiiliiiji uuli\idiiallv, grouping in 

 r,,inr,-. ur I,.,- forma! eflVL-ts. The busli- 

 aii inilai !>■ at iiunie in the old-fashioned 

 the\- are used mostly for hedging. 



Two and one-half to three feet. 



Four to four and one-half feet. 



Fifteen to eighteen inches. 75c. 



CORNUS. Flowering Dogwood 



Floridus alba. The native 

 wliite flowering is one ot the 

 very best medium-sized or- 

 namental trees. It is effec- 

 tively used as a specimen 

 treenii\rj m i ln' honler with 

 other -Imil.- and trees, hut 

 perhaps apiiears to best ad- 

 vantage skirting the wood- 

 land border. 



Plants, 2i to 3 feet 7h 

 each. 



Floridus rubra. A magnih- 

 cent rosy red flowering vari- 

 ety that is still hard to obtain . 

 Contrasts effectively with 

 alba. 



Plants, 2 J to 3 feet: 75c. 

 each. 



floridus alba 



DEUTZIA 



Lemoinei. An excellent hardy 

 shrub of dwarf habit. Pure 

 white flowers, produced in 

 large, cone-sliaped heads. 

 One of the finest dwarf 

 shrubs; a decided improve- 

 ment on gracilis. 



Pride of Pochester. A tall- 

 growing variety thai coni- 



with ([U.anl itirs ot pui c w lute 

 double llowels. \ . ly lieautl- 



ful as an in(li\-idiial -|ic(anien 

 and one ol' i lie inosi ( iTei'iive 

 flowering >lindi- lor group- 

 ing, Ol ina.ssiiig heavily in the 

 shrub border. 



Strong plants: 25c. and 

 35c. each. 



FAGUS. Purple Beech 



Sylvatica purpurea Riversii. Tins iln lin 

 lea\-ed variety that one occasionallx i\\ri-\<, iidiii 

 color distinct from the common \-ai iely. ( »iie of ( 

 natnental specimen trees. 



Strong plants, 3 to 4 fe(>t high, each. 



FORSYTHIA. Golden Bell 



One of the ver\- lirsl of l he shrubs lo (huver in Spri 



deep purple- 



inn' its rich 

 our best or- 



proiluc- 

 \ic when 



ing masses of deep fiolden hlos^onis in early Apri 

 flowers of an>- kind are particularly desirable; the \i\i.l color 

 contrasting effectively with the flora of spiiiiii. mh nK mi; the 

 s\u-roiuidings greatly, pending the arrival of ilu' luhane of 

 Summer. 



This is one of the few llowi'iiiii; shrubs thai should not be 

 plimed (luniiii \\ inler. After Ih iw eriiiji; I he stroiifi L^rowtlis can 

 be cut back an.l ]iriiiie(l siiirHaeiil ly hard lo produce a well bal- 

 anced glowth lor 111,' silcav.lm- season's llouers. 

 .Susponsa (Weepmi; ( hildeii Hell). A liiK' early flowering kind 



of peiididous habil, covered with yellow, drooping flowers. 

 Intermedia. A strong-growing variety of more erect growth, 



flowering a little later. 

 25c. each, $2.50 per doz. 



