Leading Specialties 35 Springljeld, Mas 
LEADING SPECIALTIES 
Rock Maples. Described on page 13. Extra fine trees at the prices and sizes 
named. We offer one block of very tall, trained Street Trees of the best quality. 
Also several thousand young maples, 2 to 4 feet high, for Supermtendcnts ot 
Parks and Cemeteries to plant and grow on in Nursery rows and use as wanted. 
Silver Maples. The prices named on page 12 are for trees of the highest gradesr 
trees which cannot fail to please the purchaser. We have also a few hundred No. 2 
grade ; slightly crooked, but not enough to prevent their beconning handsome trees, 
for they have abundant roots and are available for quick shade in many places. 
These will be sold at one-fourth the price of the No. i grade, while they last. 
Maple, Ash-leaved. A very rapid growing upright, round headed tree. Very 
much planted in the West to produce quick shade. 
Oaks, Pin. All sizes up to 12 feet at very low prices. Page 14. 
Beech purple-leaved. We offer specimen trees of the true Rivers Purple con- 
sidered by many to be superior to any other variety. We have another lot quite or 
nearly as rich, at much less cost. See page 11. 
Birch, colummar. The name is right, and it is well suited to small grounds. 
Linden, American. A Basswood tree delights the possessor by its vigorous growth, 
its broad leaves and its withe like branches which defy the storms ; and it delights 
the bees by tlie sweetness of its flowers. This tree, though a native, is quite rare ; 
but we now liave a stock of trimmed trees. Page 12. 
Some Choice Shrubs of which our stock at the beginning of the season was never 
so complete. 
Azaleas, Barberries, Deutzias, 
Euonymou.s, Honeysuckles, 
Hydrangeas, Lilacs, Privet, 
Spireas and Roses are young, thrifty and well grown. Page 2S. 
Climbing Vines, a complete collection will he found on page 23. 
The list includes some strong plants of the Dutchman's Pipe, Wistarias, Clema- 
tis, Boston Ivy and Honeysuckle. 
To Our many friends, who so frequenllv entrust the selection to us. Order at least 
a dozen of the New Peonies named on page 2b. Once planted and you have a per- 
manent bed -. not troubled by insects, or cold winters. ( )ur stock is limited aiidcan- 
not be finished until Autumn. If our customers want a safe and paving bed of Her- 
baceous plants : tlih is Ihe iilea! 071c to order, now. No costs, until delivered. 
We import annually many large cases of Trees, Slirubs, Roses and other Plants, 
for Ourselves and for Nurserymen and Florists. Our experience of more than 50 
years, ought to be of great value, enabling us to buy of the best growers in Eu- 
rope. 
Our Customers should send in their Orders very early. 
No One ever regretted paying us a dollar, for a pair of our highly polished Pocket 
Pruning Shears. Page 34. 
SPRINGFIELD AND ITS BACKGROUHD 
(From the Muscatine (la.) Daily Tribune.'] 
(ieographically and hv railroad, Springfield is the midway point between Boston,. 
Providence, New York, Albanv, and avast territory northward to Canada. It is an 
inland city of scarcely more than 75,00" inhabitants, rich in history, legend and old 
family traditions. Here for many years, was held, the annual pitched battle between 
Yale and Harvard. Here the trains come thundering in hourly from the four car- 
dinal points. Here proudly stands the largest and finest Armory in the world. Trib- 
utary to Springfield lie vallev and plain unsurpassed the world over for thriving fac- 
tory viUages, college towns, the long, elm-shaded streets of Acadian farming com- 
munities, and withal, a country steeped in co'onial and Revolutionary history and 
romance. 
