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Japan Maple (^Atrosanguinetim purpureuni). This is the richest 
crimson, and the most brilliant, vigorous, and the best of the Japan 
polymorphous type. It is quite hardy, and exceedingly beautiful 
as a tree of small size, well worthy of special care and cultivation. 
Size, i8 inches, at $i. 
Maples. All the old standard kinds, such as Sugar, Norway, Silver, 
Weeping, etc., extra fine trees, of all sizes, and in large or small 
orders. 
Colorado Spruce {Abies pungens). A perfectly hardy Rocky Moun- 
tain spruce of various and most attractive shades of color, from 
clear silvery white, to dark steel-blue. Of this noble variety, now 
so much in demand, I have a superior stock in highest colors 
Superb specimens at jSl to ?5 each. These are much finer than 
the ill-shaped, grafted specimens. 
Sciadopitys verticellata. The umbrella pine of Japan. A very 
distinct and symmetrical tree, which would be of great value if 
more hardy. In favored localities, and with some protection, it 
has endured the winters in the vicinity of Boston. For general 
culture in this latitude I cannot recommend it. $t, to S5 each. 
Evergreen Trees in variety, such as Nordman and Douglas Fir, 
Spruces, Retinosporas, Pines, and Arbor Vitss, in large or small 
quantities. See page 21. 
Rhododendrons. A fine collection of the most hardy named varieties. 
Various sizes of this magnificent shrub can be furnished at prices 
ranging from 75 cents up to $3 each. 
Following are some of the best and most hardy varieties: — 
Alarm, white with crimson edge. 
Aurora. 
Album elegans, blush, changing to white. 
Barclayanum, deep rosy crimson. 
Blandyanum, rosy crimson. 
Charles Bagley, cherry-red. 
Charles Dickens, dark scarlet. 
Concessum, clear pink. 
Duchess of Sutherland, rosy lilac. 
Everestianum, rosy lilac. 
