Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Plants, Etc. 
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Magnolia. 
ACUMINATA — A noble, beautiful tree with very large leaves and fragrant flowers, 
tinted with bluish purple. 
CONSPICUA — A beautiful Chinese variety, with large, white flowers, that appear 
before the leaves. Tree of small size. 
LENNEI— One of the best varieties ; flowers large and of a dark, rich purple color. 
Not hardy enough for the North. 
SPECIOSA (Showy flowered)— Similar habit to the Soulangeana ; flowers paler and 
blooms later. 
SOULANGEANA — Resembles the foregoing, except that the flowers are tinted with 
purple, and blooms rather later. A most desirable tree for all planters. 
Maple (Acer). 
ASH LEAVED (Negundo) — A line, rapid-growing variety, with handsome, light 
green permeated foliage and spreading head ; very hardy ; excellent for avenue;. 
WIER’S CUT LEAVED ( Laciniata) — A silver Maple with remarkable and beauti- 
ful dissected foliage. Of rapid growth ; shoots slender and drooping, giving it a 
very graceful appearance. Should be in every collection. 
SYCAMORE (Pseudo Plantanvs)— A large, noble variety, with spacious head and 
deep green foliage ; a free grower, and very desirable as a shade tree. 
NORWAY (Plata noides) — A distinct foreign variety, with large broad leaves of a 
deep rich green. Probably the best Maple in cultivation. 
PURPLE LEAVED (Purpurea)— One of the most beautiful and distinctly marked 
of all ; leaves purple red, particularly on the under side. A rapid, strong grower; 
hardy, and should be in every collection. 
SCARLET (llubrum) — A rapid growing tree, with red flowers very early in Spring. 
SC1IWEDLERII (Sehwedler’s Maple) — A beautiful variety, with young shoots 
and leaves of a bright purplish and crimson color, which changes to purplish green 
in the older leaves. It is a great improvement on the well known Colchicum 
llubrum, the foliage being much brighter and the growth more vigorous. 
SILVER LEAVED ( Dasycarpum ) — Of excellent rapid growth, and desirable for 
immediate effect. 
SUGAR or ROCK ( Saccliarinum ) — A very popular American tree, and for its 
stately form and tine foliage, justly ranked among the very best, both for the lawn 
and the avenue. , 
Mountain Ash (Pyrus). 
EUROPEAN (Aucuparia ) — A fine hardy tree ; head dense and regular, covered 
from July till winter with large clusters of bright scarlet berries. 
OAK LEAVED ( Quercifolia ) — A variety with large hoary lobed leaves ; distinct and 
fine. 
Oak (Quercus). 
AMERICANA — A tree of coarse growth and foliage, with large and bright colored 
berries. 
CONCORDIA (Golden) — A new variety of great beauty. Leaves green, heavily 
shaded with a rich golden yellow. A most striking and beautiful tree on the lawn, 
and should be in every collection. 
PURPUREA — New and admirable contrast to the Golden. Leaves of a very dark, 
rich purple, presenting a very striking and beautiful appearance. Very valuable. 
VARIEGATA— Leaves distinctly margined with white ; effective and pleasing. 
Paulonia (Imperialis). 
A magnificent tropical looking tree from Japan, of extremely rapid growth, and 
surpassing all others in the size of its leaves, which are twelve to fourteen inches 
in diameter. Blossoms trumpet shaped, formed in large, upright panicles, and 
appear in May. Quite hardy here, but the flower buds are killed during severe 
Winters. 
Peach (Amygdalus). 
DOUBLE WHITE (Alba Plena) — Very ornamental; flowers pure white and 
double ; hardy. 
VARIOUS COLORED (Versicolor, fl. pi.) — The most singular of all the flowering 
trees ; flowers variously white and red and variegated on the tree at the same 
time. Flowers earlv, perfectly hardy. 
PURPUREA (Blood-Leaved) — Leaves are of a deep crimson purple in the Spring. 
Poplar. 
FASTIGIATA (Lombard)— A very distinct, well-known variety, of rapid growth 
and tall, narrow form. 
Salisburia (Maiden Hair Tree or Gingko). 
ADIANTIFOLIA — A singular and beautiful tree, foliage yellowish green, curiously 
lobed and marked wdth delicately' liair-like lines. 
