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SPIREA, PRUNIFOLIA — (Plum Leaved Spirea) — Blooms in May with 
pure white double flowers. Makes showy specimen plants for lawn. 
SPIREA, THUNBERGII — One of the first shrubs to flower in the spring. 
Forms a perfect, well-rounded bush, dwarf and compact. A perfect ball of 
white when in bloom. 
SPIREA, VAN HOUTTE — The grandest of all the Spireas; it is a beauti- 
ful ornament for the lawn at any season, but when in flower it is a complete 
fountain of white bloom, the foliage hardly showing. 
ST. JOHN’S WORT, MOSERIANUM — A grand variety with bright golden 
yellow flowers two inches in diameter. A continuous bloomer. 
SUMACH or SMOKE TREE, SHINING SUMACH — Noted for its lustrous 
green leaves which are crimson in autumn, and its scarlet heads of seeds. 
SYRINGA, or MOCK ORANGE — All the species and varieties of the 
syringa philadelphus have white flowers, many of them quite fragrant. 
SYRINGA, GARLAND — A well known shrub, pure white sweet-scented 
flowers. 
SYRINGA, GOLDEN-LEAVED — A very pretty plant of medium size with 
golden yellow foliage. It retains its color the entire season, and is valuable 
for creating pleasing and striking contrasts with both green and purple- 
leaved shrubs. 
SYRINGA, LEMOINEL ERECTA — A shrub of comparatively recent intro- 
duction, and one that you cannot afford to be without. It is dwarf in growth 
very compact and shapely, producing flowers from the ground to tip of 
branches. Flowers creamy white, very fragrant, making it one of the finest 
hardy shrubs for massing or individual specimen plants. 
SYRRINGA, VAN HOUTTE’S — Red; one of the best red varieties. 
TAMARIX, AFRICAN — A very beautiful shrub, with very fine, feathery 
foliage, something like the Juniper; this sort has light pink flowers in small 
racemes, which appear toward the close of May or first of June; a valuable 
shrub for near sea shore or in sandy soils, where others do not do well. 
VERBENA SHRUB, OR BLUE SPIREA — A new shrub, which is planted 
because of its blossoming late in the fall, when but few shrubs are flowering. 
In the axil of each leaf-stalk is a bunch of bright-blue flowers. It continues 
in flower from the middle of September to the middle of October. An entire 
bed of this plant produces a striking effect; 2 to 3 feet high when grown. 
A valuable plant for bedding. 
WEIGELA. 
A valuable class of Japanese shrubs, adapted to any good soil. The flow- 
ers are large trumpet-shaped, of all shades and colors, from pure white to 
red and are borne in great profusion. 
