FLOWERING AND 

 DECIDUOUS 



SHRUBS 



RHUS aroma tica. Drought-resisting shrub with foliage like the poison vine, with 

 red berries in July. Grows about 3 ft. high. 



1-2 ft. high 50c. each, $4.50 per 10 



R. copallina. Shining Sumac. Like Bayberry on dry hills it makes a rounded mass 

 of small, shiny foliage without the height of the following species. 

 1}4 ft. high 50c. each, $4.00 per 10 



R. typhina. Staghorn Sumac. Grows 15 ft. high, with twigs covered with velvet. 

 3-5 ft. high. .60c. each, $5.00 per 10 



R. typhina laciniata. Cut-Leaved Sumac. Beautiful fern-like foliage. 



4 ft. high 75c. each, $6.00 per 10 



ROSE OF SHARON. See Hibiscus. 



SAMBUGUS canadensis. Common Elder. Big heads of white flowers and purple 

 berries good for jam. Nature plants it along the fence rows. 



3-4 ft. high 60c. each, $5.00 per 10, $40.00 per 100 



S. pubens. Red-berried Elder. Brilliant orange-red berries in July. 



3-4 ft. high , 75c. each, $6.00 per 10, $50.00 per 100 



SNOWBALL. See Viburnum. 



SORBARIA Aitchinsonii. A Spiraea-like plant with great panicles of white, like the 

 Hydrangea in mid-Summer. 



4 ft. high $1.00 each $7.50 per 10 



SPIRAEA 



The Spiraea family has been an old standby in shrub plantations. You can wisely 

 plan to use them in quantity, spacing them 3 to 6 ft. apart. 



SPIR^ A Bumalda, var. Anthony Waterer. Pink flowers all Summer. Grows 

 2V 2 ft. high. 



1 ft 50c. each, $4.00 per 10, $35.00 per 100 



S. prunifolia fl. pi. Bridal Wreath. Old-fashioned shrub with double white flowers 

 in early May. 



2 ft. 60c. each $4.50 per 10 



S. Thunbergii. Snow Garland. A bank of white just after the Golden Bell in April 

 and early May. 



2 ft. high 75c. each $7.00 per 10 



S. Van Houttei. Big, arching, Elm-like shrub with white flowers in early May. 



2 ft. high 50c. each $4.50 per 10 $40.00 per 100 



3 ft. high 75c. each $6.00 per 10 



STYRAX japonica. Japanese Styrax. A new plant you ought to know and use in 

 quantity, if you have the room. Little, waxy, creamy bells hanging down in great 

 profusion from the lower sides of the wide-sweeping horizontal branches; orange 

 blossoms could not be more charming; flowers are followed by little, pendant fruit, 

 which split open in the Fall and reveal the coffee-bean-like seeds. Plant a single 

 tree in your flower garden where it will be as welcome as the Magnolia. Plant a dozen 

 in the shrubbery either as a group 10 ft. apart or at intervals of 50 ft. Plant it by 

 the hundreds in the woods or out in a grove of trees. 



2 ft, high 50c. each, $4.00 per 10, $35.00 per 100 



6-7 ft. high . .$3.00 each, $20.00 per 10, $150.00 per 100 



HICKS NURSERIES, WEST BURY, LONG ISLAND 

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