K. :w,c REID'S CATALOGUE OF SMALL FRUITS, ETC. 
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FLOWERING SHRUBS. 
AI.THEA, Double. Shrubs of very easy 
culture, which bear a profusion of large, 
showy flowers in autumn, blooming for 
a long time when there is very little 
bloom. They are very desirable as sin- 
gle specimens, or in clumps, aiid flue for 
hedges. First class, 50 cts. each. 
BERBERRY, Purple-leaved. 2 to 3 
feet, 40 cts. oach, $3 per doz. 
CALYCANTHUS. Very desirable; the 
wood is fragrant, foliage rich, flowers 
of a rare chocolate color, and having a 
peculiar, agreeable odor; they blossom 
in June, and at intervals afterward. 
First class, 35 cts. each; second class, 
25 cts. each. 
CORNUS ( Bird Cherry) . 3 to 3 feet, 50 cts. 
each, $4 per doz. 
C YD ONI A (Japan Quince). 3 to 4 feet, 
50 cts. each, $4 per doz. 
HONEYSUCKLE. 2 to 3 feet, 50 cts. each, 
*4 per doz. 
HYDRANGEA paniculata grandiflora. 
A variety of great value, perfectly 
hardy ; with large and abundant foli- 
age, and immense pyramidial panicles 
of white flowers, a foot or more in 
length, changing to pink, which appear 
in August and continue until frost; 
most effective either singly or in groups, 
and a shrub of the greatest beauty and 
value. Strong flowering plants, 2 years, 
first class, 50 cts. each; second class, 
25 cts. each. 
JAPAN SNOWBALL. A beautiful 
flowering shrub; the flower clusters, 
which are produced all over the bush, 
are spherical in form, and of the purest 
white, with dark green foliage. First 
class, 50 cts. each. 
LILAC, Purple. 2 to 3 feet, 25 cts. each, 
.32.50 per doz. 
White. 2 to 3 ft., 50 cts. each, $4 per doz. 
PHIL ADELPHUS ( Syringa) . 2 to 3 feet, 
25 cts. each, $3 per doz. 
SPIREA Billardii. Plant of upright 
growth, producing a spiked-panicle of 
flowers of bright rose color; blooms 
nearly all summer. 25 cts. each. 
Douglassi. 2 to 3 feet, 25 cts. each, 33 
per doz. 
Blumeii. 2 to 3 feet, 25 cts. each, $3 
per doz. 
WEIGELA, White. 2 to 3 feet, 50 cts. 
each, $-1 per doz. 
Rosea. 2 to 3 ft., 50 cts. each. 34 per doz. 
Variegated-leaved. 2 to 3 feet, 50 cts. 
each, 34 per doz. 
ROSES. 
When the bushes are received, plant them at once. Prepare the rose bed by digging 
out the soil to about eighteen inches deep; mix the top soil thoroughly with compost of 
rotten cow manure and rotten cotton seed. If the bush has several branches, cut off all 
but two of the strongest; cut these back to about 3 inches of thoir juncture with the stalk. 
ROSES OF SPECIAL MERIT. 
MARECHAL NIEL. (Noisette.) A beautiful, deep sulphur yellow; very full, large and 
exceedingly fragrant. It is the fin- 
est yellow rose in existence. It has 
a climbing habit, and where it is 
allowed to grow until it attains a 
large size, as it will in a few years, it 
yields thousands of beautiful flowers. 
We have an especially line stock of 
this variety. 2 year, 75 cts. each ; 
1 year, 50 cts. each. 
AMERICAN BEAUTY. A rose of 
large size, having the ever bloom- 
ing qualities of the Tea rose, with 
the delicious odor of our old June 
roses. 2 year, 75 cts. each ; 1 year, 
50 cts. each. 
LA FRANCE. Delicate silvery rose ; 
large and full; almost a constant 
bloomer; equal in delicacy to a Tea 
Rose ; the most pleasing fraganee of 
all Roses ; a moderate grower, and 
indispensable in any rose garden; 
semi-hardy. 2 year, 50 cts. each ; 1 
year, 25 cts. each. 
PAPA GONTIER. Fine foliage, 
free flowering; free from mildew 
and keeping double ; one of the best 
out-door summer roses for cut-flow- 
ers; blooms large and long, with 
thick broad petals of a dark carmine 
crimson ; inner petals are brightrosy 
carmine and light up well at night. 
25 to 50 cts. each. American beauty. 
