DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 
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sufficiently thorny and strong to make a valuable hedge, and its beautiful 
flowers make it very handsome for that purpose. 
QUINCE, SCARLET — One of the best known; a very handsome, hardy, 
ornamental shrub. Has bright scarlet-crimson flowers in great profusion, early 
in spring; one of the best hardy shrubs; makes a beautiful ornamental hedge. 
QUINCE, BLUSH — A beautiful variety with white and blush flowers. 
SCOTCH BROOM — The branches, almost rush-like in appearance, bearing 
lovely yellow flowers. 
SILVER BELL, OR SNOW DROP TREE— A fine large shrub, with beau- 
tiful large white, bell-shaped flowers in May. Rare and desirable. 
SNOWBALL, COMMON — A well-known favorite shrub of large size, with 
globular clusters of pure white flowers in the latter part of May. 
SNOWBALL, OPULUS — (High Bush Cranberry) — Handsome and dense 
foliage; flowers white in drooping flat cymes followed by brilliant scarlet 
fruit in showy pendulous branches that remain on the plant all winter. 
SNOWBALL, PLICATUM — (Japan Snowball) — This Japanese variety of 
the old fashioned Snowball is one of the most valuable of our hardy shrubs. 
It forms an erect, compact shrub, six to eight feet high ; blossoms in June and 
for a long time is a solid mass of white, the plants being completely covered 
from the ground to the top of the branches with large balls of flowers as white 
as snow. The foliage in early summer is an olive green, turning to very dark 
later in the season. 
SNOWBERRY, VULGARIS — (Indian Currant Coral Berry, St. Peter’s Wort 
or Wax berry) — Graceful small shrub; small flowers, followed by persistent 
deep red berries along the under side of branches. 
SNOWBERRY, RACEMOSUS — A well known shrub with pink flow rs and 
large white berries that remain on the plant throughout part of the winter. 
SPIREA. 
Graceful shrubs, everyone should plant. They are of easiest culture, and 
very desirable in collections, for they embrace such a range of foliage color 
of flower and habit of growth. 
SPIREA, ANTHONY WATERER — In our estimation one of the best flow- 
ering hardy plants. Makes a dwarf bush 15 to 18 inches high, covered from 
spring till late in the fall with large heads of crimson flowers. Perfectly 
hardy. Grand for border to taller growing shrubs, single specimen plants 
for the lawn or for winter and spring blooming in pots. 
SPIREA, AUREA — (Gold Leaved) — Flowers fine, white; foliage of a beau- 
tiful golden color, which gives variety to the lawn and renders it very de- 
sirable. 
SPIREA, CALLOSA ALBA — A white flowering variety of dwarf habit; 
\ery fine; remains in flower all summer. 
