Leading Specialties 35 Springfield, Mass. 
LEADING SPECIALTIES 
Rock Maples. Pesciibed 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 Superintendents of 
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 grades: 
trees which cannot fail to please the purcliaser. \\'e liave also a few hundred No. 2 
grade ; slightly crooked, but not enough to prevent their becoming handsome trees, 
tor 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. 1 grade, while tliey last. 
Maple, Ash-leaved. A very rapid growing upright, round headed tree. Very 
much planted in tlie 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 Puiple 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 1 1. 
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 the sweetness of its flowers. This tree, though a native, is quite rare ; 
but we now have 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^ 
Euonymous, Honeysuckles, 
Hydrangeas, Lilacs, Privet,. 
Spireas and Roses are young, thrifty and well grown. Page 28. 
Climbing Vines, a complete collection will be 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 frequently entrust the selection to us. Order at least 
a dozen of the New Peonies named on page 26. Once planted and you have a per- 
manent bed ; not troubled by insects, or cold winters. Our stock is limited and can- 
not be finished until Autumn. If our customers want a safe and paying bed of Her- 
baceous plants : this is the ideal of/e to order, tiow. No costs, until delivered. 
We import annually many large cases of Trees, Shrubs, 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 Cu.stomers should send in their ilrders 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 BACKGROUND 
[From the Muscatine{Ia.) Daily Tribune.^ 
(Jeographically and by railroad, Springfield is the midway point between Boston, 
Providence, New York, Albany, and a vast territory northward to Canada. It is an. 
inland city of scarcely more than 75,000 inhabitants, rich in history, legend and old 
family traditions. Here for many years, was held, the annual pitched battle betweeiv 
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 valley and plain imsurpassed the world over for thriving fac- 
tory villages, college towns, the long, elm-shaded streets of Acadian farming com- 
munities, and withal, a country steeped in colonial and Revolutionary history and 
romance. 
