Center Point, Iowa 
23 
cately cut foliage present a combination 
of attractive characteristics rarely met 
with in a single tree. Entirely hardy, 
perfect, full grown specimens are seen in 
Minnesota where the mercury drops to 
30 or 40 degrees below zero. 
Tea's Weeping Mulberry. 
Camperilown Weeping Elm — This forms 
one of the most picturesque drooping 
trees. It is of rank rowth, the shoots 
often making a zigzag growth outward 
and downward of several feet in a sin- 
gle season. The leaves are large, dark 
green and glossy, and cover the tree. 
Tea's Weeping Mulberry — One of the 
hardiest and most vigorous of the weep- 
ing trees. It forms a perfect umbrella- 
shaped head, with long, sweeping 
branches which reach to the ground. 
Produces fruit the same as Russian Mul- 
berry. 
Weeping Mountain Ash — A very hardy 
pendulous form of the European Moun- 
tain Ash which makes a conspicuous 
lawn tree, should be pruned to make 
it branch symmetrically. 
Ornamental Shrubs 
LILACS 
Nothing is more beautiful than a clump, 
hedge or screen of these, and they should 
go into every border. In many country 
doorvards the neglected lilacs continue 
to bloom with the fragrance and beauty 
that is unsurpassed by any other shrub. 
Common Purple — The old fashioned kind. 
Common White. 
Persian Lilac — A late blooming variety 
with slender branches and narrow 
leaves. Flowers pale lilac, very fra- 
grant and in large panicles. A low 
growing shrub. 
BUDDED VARIETIES 
Alphonse Lavalle — Large panicles of 
double violet-blue flowers. 
Belle de IVancy — Double white flowers 
that are tinged with purple. 
Frnu Dnmminn — One of the best; a free 
bloomer with medium sized white flow- 
ers, borne in large panicles. 
Mme. Abel chatenay — Pure white flowers 
in compact panicles. 
President Grevy — The individual flowers 
are very large and double, a beautiful 
blue in color. The panicles are larger 
than those of any other variety. 
Ludwig Spaeth — The single flowers are 
very dark purple, and distinct from 
other kinds. 
Senateur Volland — A good variety with 
double rose-red flowers. 
Spireas 
Low growing shrubs well adapted for 
hedges, shrubberies or single specimens 
on the lawn. They grow easily in almost 
any moderately moist soil and with very 
little care or attention. 
Spiren Anthony Waterer — This makes an 
excellent dwarf hedge about 2 feet high 
if not pruned. It is smooth and verv 
attractive when in flower. Plant 15 
inches apart: 
Spirea Van Houttei — A good smooth hedge 
plant becoming 5 or 6 feet high if not 
pruned. In the spring it is a solid bank 
of white. Plant 15 to 18 inches apart. 
Osage Orange — A very thorny bush or 
small tree if uncut. Not hardy in Cen- 
tral Iowa. Plant 12 to 18 inches apart 
Other Shrubs 
Berberis Thunbergil — A perfectly hardy 
Japanese form which is' unequalled for 
low hedges. Produces an abundance of 
small flowers in May and is all aglow 
with scarlet leaves and berries in the 
fall. 
Cut Leaved or Pern Leaved Sumac. (Rhus 
typhina lacenata) A variety of sumac 
with fern-like leaves and brilliant scar- 
let fruit in autumn. 
Hydrangea Panieulata Grandiflora — A fine 
hardy shrub which is very popuar, easy 
to grow and blooms the same year it is 
planted. The flowers are in immense 
panicles, creamy white at first, chang- 
ing to pure white, and turning pink and 
brownish with age. It blooms in August 
and continues through September. The 
flowers will be larger and finer if given 
good rich soil, and the plants cut back 
