FLOWERING SHRUBS. 
^ {/ VACCINIUM stamineum (Squaw or Deerberry). Shrub 4 to lo 
feet high, with spreading branches; flowers in leafy racemes, white or 
delicate pink ; fruit greenish, wilh purple tinge when fully ripe, edible ; 
"a fine garden plant." i lo 2 ft |o 20 §1 00 
)l/ VIBURNUM aeerifolium (Maple-Leaved Arrow Wood). A slender 
shrub, three to five feet high, of neat and somewhat compact habit, 
producing freely, small, long stemmed clusters of white flowers, but 
its greatest beauty is in the rich deep "claret-color " which its hand- 
some three lobed leaves assume, late in autumn, i to 2 ft 20 i 00 
ZANTHORHIZA apiifolia (Yellow Root). A low and very hardy 
shrub, two to three feet high, very useful for the margin of shrubberies. 
Pinnate leaves changing to a bright orange in late autumn. 9 to 12 m. 20 75 
Evergreen SHriJbs. 
Each. Six. 
HYPERICUM aureum. A rare species, and the finest of all this 
family of plants. Bartram, the discover of this rare shrub gives a 
good descriinion of it in his "travels." He says: "I observed * * 
a species of shrub Hypericum (//. aJ/?-ifK>K), of extraordinary show 
and beauty It grows erect three or four feet high, forming a globular 
top, representing a perfect little tree ; the leaves are large, oblong, firm 
of texture, smooth and shining ; the flowers are very large, their petals 
broad and conspicuous, which with their tufts of golden filaments give 
the little bushes a very splendid appearance. The large orange yel- 
low flowers are two inches across when expanded." ProfC. S. Sargent, 
director of Arnold Arboretum savs: "There are few dwarf shrubs 
better worth a place in the garden." Fine blooming plants. 12 to 18 in. $0 40 ?2 00 
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H. fasoieutetum.' Tnother (fine species, 3 to 5 feet high, with smaller 
leaves and flowers than the preceding, though a somewhat freer 
bloomer. Forms a compact bush, and is very showy when full of its 
bright yellow blossoms, which almost completely cover the buth in 
July and August. Very desirable as a small ornamental. 9toi2in. . 15 5° 
I to 2 ft., flowering plants 25 i 00 
KALMIA angustifolia (Sheep Laurel). Small shrub, 2 to 3 ft. high, 
with narrow leaves and small deep rose-colored flowers in very early 
spring-. I ft per 100, $8 . 20 75 
K. latifoUa (Mountain Laurel). One of the best of all our native ever- 
green shrubs, often twenty to thirty feet high in its wild growth among 
the mountains. Its close corymbs of large white or rose-colored flow- 
ers are exceedingly showy, and few plants in cultivation appear more 
strikingly beautiful than our "Mountain Laurel," when seen from a 
distance, in full bloom. Mrs. Van Rensselaer, in a late number of 
Garden and Forest, sets forth in a convincing way, its merits for dis- 
tinction as " Our National Flower ;" and we trust that popular opinion 
will also decide In favor of this worthy contestant, as the flower for 
our national emblem. 6 to 9 in 20 75 
9 to 12 in 30 I 20 
I to ft 50 
LEIOPHYLLUM buxifolium (Sand Myrtle). A handsome little 
dwarf evergreen shrub, 6 to 12 inches high, with small white or rose- 
colored flow^ers In terminal clusters, "made conspicuous by the brown 
or purple anthers." Its minute, oblong and glossy leaves are arrang- 
ed densely on the stems. Blooms early in May. 3 to 6 in i.S 5° 
6 to 9 in 25 I 00 
LBUOOTHCEj Catesbsei. Fine small evergreen, with drooping 
stem, 3 to 10 feet long, and recurved branches, along which the long 
dense racemes of beautiful white bell-shaped flowers are disposed. 
Blooms In March and April. 6 to 9 in 20 75 
9 to 12 In 25 1 00 
I to 2 ft 35 I 50 
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