THE ELIZABETH NURSERY COMPANY'S ABRIDGED CATALOGUE. 
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HEDGE PLANTS= California Privet. 
We have in the last few years made the growing of Privet a study. We have 800,000 plants now growing. 
We think our plants are better than most of the Privet grown and sold for hedges. Our hedges are so you can hardly 
see through or under them. You will notice nine-tenths of the hedges are open so that large dogs can go between and 
under the plants. This should not be. In growing Privet we are not after height, but bushy plants branched from the 
ground. Privet we consider the most popular of all hedge plants, and decidedly the finest and best of all for forming an 
ornamental hedge, its foliage being so abundant as to produce a wall of the deepest, richest green. It can almost bo 
called an Evergreen, as its foliage is not shed until late in the winter, and then only in an exposed position. We 
mention some of its merits : 
It is very hardy. Produces a hedge at once, if desired, instead of in two or three years, as with Osage Orange 
and many others. Easily and quickly pruned, and it is a pleasure, as there are no thorns. Will grow almost 
anywhere and in any kind of soil; will grow very fast in rich soil. It has made more lawns beautiful than 
any other plant. We cannot recommend any plant that is more suitable for a division line, just to mark the line, than 
Privet; as it can be kept down to 18 inches, or you can let it grow, if a screen is required, to 15 feet high, and it can be 
trimmed so that it will take up but little more space than a fence, or you may have it 4 feet wide. You can trim it at the 
corners to represent a gatepost. By planting a dozen plants together you can make a beautiful specimen. 
We have Privet trimmed in various forms. We have them to represent evergreen trees — round, compact balls, suit- 
able to plant where you cannot grow evergreens. We also have the standards, as you will notice in the cut on page 
18, or trimmed in shape to represent a Sweet Hay Tree and which cannot be distinguished from that tree by many. It is 
better than the Sweet Hay for many reasons. One is, that it can be left standing in the yard through the winter where the 
Bay has to be taken to the greenhouse. See page 18. 
PRICES OF GOOD HEALTHY PLANTS: 
10 to 12 inches $2 00 per 108, $15 00 per 1000 
25 00 
4 00 
30 00 
45 00 
6 00 
50 00 
8 00 " 
05 00 
8 to 5 feet, extra heavy 
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15 00 
Bushy specimen plants, $1.00 to $2.00 each. 
ALTHAEAS. (Double). \% to 2 feet, $5 per 100; 2 to 3 feet, $7.50 per 100; 3 to 4 feet, $15 per 100. 
AMERICAN ARBOR VIT^E. For hedging. (For description, see page 12). 12 to 15 inches, $5 per 100; 1^ to 
2 feet, $8 per 100; 2 to 2% feet, $10 per 100; 2% to 3 feet, $15 per 100; 3 to 4 feet, $25 per 100; 4 to 5 feet, 
$35 per 100. 
HEMLOCK SPRUCE. 12 to 15 inches, $14 per 100; 2 to 3 feet, $35 per 10f. 
NORWAY SPRUCE. 12 to 15 inches, $10 per 100; 18 inches to 2 feet, $15 per 100. 
BOX EDGING. $3.50 per 100, $30 per 1000; extra heavy, 8 cts. each, $7 per 100. Price for quantity on application. 
CRATAEGUS Pyracantha (Evergreen Thorn). A thick, thorny evergreen shrub, used for hedges; many of the 
plants, are loaded with bright scarlet berries in autumn. $4.00 per 100; transplanted, $G per 100. 10 to 18 inches. 
See Novelties in Fruits, pages 5 and 6. 
See Ornamental Grasses on page 24. 
Hardy Herbaceous Plants, for complete list, send for our general Catalogue. 
Clematis Paniculata, see cut and description on page 18. 
Roses, in one hundred varieties, see our 64 page Catalogue. 
