"yy ESTBURY NURSERIES <g> Flowering Shrubs 
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PRIVET, Californian. No 
plant of recent introduction 
has come more rapidly and 
deservedly into public favor. 
Though mainly used for 
ornamental hedges, it is of 
great value for shrubberies. 
It is of very vigorous, upright 
growth, thriving finely in 
seaside as well as other un- 
favorable situations. Foliage 
dark, glossy and nearly ever- 
green ; unaffected by insects 
or blight ; flowers in July ; 
white and fragrant, similar 
to the lilacs. 
Most of the Privet now on 
the market is grown by 
sticking down cuttings close 
together, which send up 
from two to five slender 
branches. The plant is 
usually chopped out with a 
•spade, which cuts the roots 
closely. Planted in a hedge, 
they start to grow from the 
top, leaving the bottom thin, 
or nearly bare of leaves. In 
order to produce a fair hedge 
with such plants, a double 
row is often resorted to. 
Our plants are cut back 
several times a season, caus- 
ing wide branching at the 
bottom, making them from 
i}4 to 2% feet in width. They 
are transplanted at one year, 
wide apart, highly fertilized, 
cultivated in long fields, and 
dug with a tree-digger and 
eight horses. The result is 
fine, stocky , broad - based 
plants, with numerous 
fibrous roots, economically 
and well grown. 
These plants, if set five 
inches deeper and one foot 
or more apart, form a hedge 
solid at the bottom ; far bet- 
ter than a double row of the ordinary sort. Al- 
though Privet is easily grown, the numerous thin 
hedges seen are the result of poor plants, which 
take two years of cutting back and fertilizing to 
equal ours in its first year. See illustration, page 7. 
California!!, Tree-form. The Privet, trained up 
to a single stem and globular head, makes an 
excellent plant for tubs and urns in the formal 
garden. It is equally as good as the tender Bay 
Tree or Laurus nobilis, being hardy and costing 
only a fraction in comparison. 
Golden Variegated. A variety with yellow, pink 
and green foliage. 
Ibota. A Japanese sort, with dark shining foliage 
and showy panicles of pure white flowers. Branches 
long and graceful. As a flowering shrub this is 
far superior to the Californian. 5 feet. 
Ibota amurense (Amoor Privet). Upright and 
vigorous. Light green foliage ; showy white flower 
spikes. 8 feet. 
QUINCE, Japan (Fire Bush, Pyrus Japonica) . The 
thorny, shining stems and bright flowers make a 
brilliant display in April. Fine for shrubberies 
and hedges. Scarlet, Blush and White. 
RHODOTYFUS (White 'Kerria). A good shrub, 
blooming all summer, bearing flowers like syringa 
blossoms, followed by shining black seeds. 4 feet. 
SEA BUCKTHORN. An irregular shrub of silvery 
foliage, vigorous and tall ; especially good for sea- 
shore planting. 6 to 8 feet. t? 
SIBERIAN PEA TREE. A choice shrub or small 
tree, bearing clusters of small yellow pea-shaped 
flowers along the branches in June. A pretty little 
tree. 
MAGNOLIA CONSPICUA. 
Large pure white lily-like flowers, 4 or 5 inches high, which are occasionally 
caught by late snow storms. It makes in time a small tree. 
SNOWBERRY (Waxberry). An old-fashioned, 
free-growing shrub, bearing small pink flowers, 
followed by large, showy, pure white berries, 
which cling late in the autumn. 
SNOWBALL. Large shrubs, bearing large balls of 
white flowers in June. Native kinds are excellent 
for quick-growing thickets, where shrub screens 
are needed. The newer sorts are fine for single 
specimens. 
Common (Guelder Rose). The favorite old-fash- 
ioned Snowball. 
Japan. For description, see under cut, page 24. 
SFIR2EA. The Spiraeas are fine shrubs, of easiest 
culture in all situations, and among them are 
found some of the most beautiful of hardy flower- 
ing shrubs. They present great diversity in form, 
color, and time _ of flowering. The following 
species are given in the order of blooming : 
Thunbergii. A distinct species of delicate beauty 
at all seasons. It has fluffy masses of small white 
flowers in April and May ; narrow, willowy leaves, 
turning bright orange and red in late autumn. 
Makes a fine low hedge. 
Bridal Wreath (S. pruni folia). Its long, slender 
branches, loaded in May with tiny double white 
flowers along their entire length, give a solid white 
effect. The small and glossy oval leaves form 
pleasing masses of dark green foliage in summer, 
and assume rich autumnal shades of red and 
orange. 
Van Houttei. For description, see under cut, p. 24. 
Reevesii var. fLore plena. Large, round clusters 
of double white flowers gently curving the 
branches in June ; lanceolate leaves. Very 
choice. 
