THE CHASE NURSERIES, GENEVA, N. Y. 
Hydrangea Paoiculata Grandiflora 
Pride of Rochester.— A variety raised by us 
and producing large double white flowers, the 
back of the petals being slightly tinted with 
rose. It excels all the older sorts in size of 
flower, length of panicle, profuseness of bloom 
and vigorous habit; blooms nearly a week 
earlier than Deutzia crenata flore pleiio. 
Scabra. — (Rough-leaved)— One of the most 
beautiful profuse flowering shrubs; flowers 
single white. 
ELDER — Sambucus. 
Common American Elder. — Broad panicles of 
white flowers in June; reddish purple berries 
in autumn. A well-known native shrub. 
Cut-leaved American Elder. — A beautiful 
variety, with deeply and delicately cut dark 
green foliage. It is valuable on accoimt of its 
beauty, hardiness, and rapid growth, and the 
ease with which it is transplanted. We con- 
sider it one of the best cut-leaved shrubs in 
cultivation. 
Golden. — (Aurea) — A beautitul variety with 
light yellow leaves, which hold their color well 
and render the plant very conspicuous and ef- 
fective. 
Euonymus. — (Burning Bush or Strawberry 
Tree) — A very ornamental and showy bush, 
whose chief beauty consists in its brilliant ber- 
ries, which hang in clusters from the branches 
until mid-winter; berries rose-colored; planted 
with a background of Evergreens the eflfect of 
contrast is very fine. 
Eleagnus Longipes. — A well-known shrub of 
spreading habit, dark green foliage, silvery- 
white beneath, with yellow flowers and bright 
red fruit that is beautiful as an ornament on 
the bush and is esteemed very highly by many 
for use in place of cranberries. 
FRINGE— Rhus. 
Filbert, Purple-leaved. — (Corylus avellana 
atropurpurea) — A vigorous shrub with large 
deep purple leaves; very ornamental; produces 
good fruit. 
Purple Fringe, or Smoke Tree. — (Rhus Coti- 
nus) — A small tree or shrub, very much ad- 
mired on account of its peculiar fringe or hair- 
like flowers, covering the whole surface of the 
bush in mid-summer. 
White. — (Chionanthus Virginica) — One of the 
finest shrubs with large leaves and racemes 
of delicate fringe-like greenish white flowers, 
in May and June. 
GOLDEN BELL— Forsythia. 
These are pretty shrubs of medium size. 
All natives of China and Japan. The flowers 
are drooping, yellow, and appear very early in 
spring before the leaves. The best very early 
flowering shrubs. 
Fortune's Forsythia. — Growth upright, foli- 
age deep green, flowers bright yellow. 
Viridissima. — A fine hardy shrub. Leaves 
and bark deep green, flowers deep yellow, very 
early in spring. 
HALESIA 
Halesia (Snow Drop Tree).— Silver Bell. A 
beautiful large shrub with handsome white bell- 
shaped flowers in May. Very desirable. 
Spirea. 
HONEYSUCKLE, UPRIGHT— Lonicera. 
The following species and varieties are of 
erect, shrubby habit, and form beautiful speci- 
mens when properly trimmed: 
Red Tartarian. — A well known old fashioned 
sort which blooms in May. It has slender and 
upright branches, with small bright pink 
flowers followed by red or orange yellow ber 
ries. 
White Tartarian. — Same as the Red Tartar- 
ian, except in its beautiful white flowers, for 
reason of which it is fine for planting with 
other varieties for contrast. 
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