GREAT NORTHERN SEED CO., ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS—LOWEST PRICES 
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HARDY ORNAMENTAL SHRUBS 
A/Z ShrubsPOSTPXiD 
Japanese Snowball 
This Japanese variety of Snowball forms an erect, 
compact plant, 6 to 8 feet in height, blooms in June 
and are filled with hundreds of big snowy balls. Fine 
young plants, 40c each; 3 for $1.15, postpaid. 
Common Snowball 
The standard variety and a favorite with every¬ 
one. Fine young plants, 30c each; 3 for 85c, postpaid. 
Snowberry 
The White Indian Currant. Dwarf shrub with small 
pink flowers and large white berries. Fine young 
plants, 25c each; 3 for 70c, postpaid. 
Sweet Scented Shrub 
CALYCANTHUS—Double, dull brownish purple 
flowers of exquisite strawberry-like fragrance. 
Fine young plants, 30c each; 3 for 85c, postpaid. 
Pink Flowering Almond 
Rose colored flowers, perfectly double, and one 
of the first shrubs to bloom in the spring. Fine 
young plants, 45c each; doz. $4.50, hy Express. 
Japanese Snowball. 
Weigelia 
EVA RATHKE—Flowers continuously throughout the 
Summer and Autumn; rich ruby-carmine, borne in 
clusters all along the branches. Fine young plants, 
30c each; 3 for 85c, postpaid. 
ROSEA—Dwarf shrub with beautiful foliage: the 
flowers are delicate rose-pink. Fine young plants, 
25c each; 3 for 70c, postpaid. 
Feather Tree of Tamarix 
Beautiful shrubs with feathery asparagus-like 
foliage and pinkish white blossoms in June and July. 
The delicate bloom which covers the bush is beauti¬ 
ful. Fine young plants, 25c each; 3 for 70c, postpaid. 
Double Syringa or Mock Orange 
Something entirely new. Not the old-fashioned 
Single Mock Orange, but a perfectly double ivory 
white flower, deliciously fragrant and completely cov¬ 
ered with flowers. Fine young plants, 30c each; 3 for 
85c, postpaid. 
Sweet Pepper Bush 
CLETHRA ALNIFOLIA—A low-growing shrub with 
dense pale green foliage, covered with spikes of de¬ 
lightfully fragrant white flowers, produced from 
July to October. Fine young plants, 30c each; 3 
for 85c, postpadd. 
Beauty Bush 
Trumpet-shaped flowers. Outside color deep pink, 
stained yellow-brown on lower throat and lip. Per¬ 
fectly hardy. Fine young plants, 19c each; 3 for 54c, 
postpaid. 
Double Syringa or Mock Orange. 
Spirea 
Snowberry. 
BRIDAL WREATH—This lovely shrub is 
always popular, and justly so, because of 
its real beauty; bears large spirals of 
densely crowded pure white flowers, each 
blossom like a miniature rose the entire 
length of the branches—and they appear 
by the million—hence the common title 
of “Bridal Wreath.” Fine young plants, 
20c each; 3 for 55c, postpaid. 
ANTHONY WATERER—A perpetual bloom- 
er. Makes a dwarf bush 18 to 24 inches 
high, covered from Spring until late in 
the Fall with large heads of lovely crim¬ 
son flowers, borne in dense clusters and 
has a peculiar feathery appearance. Fine 
young plants, 25c each; 3 for 70c, post¬ 
paid. 
BILLARDI—Instead of clusters of flowers, 
we here have a plume-like spike of deep 
rose-colored flowers. Fine plants, 35c 
each; 3 for 95c, postpaid. 
Deutzia Lemoineii 
Magniflcent, broad, dense heads of ve^ 
full, pure snowy-white flowers, produced in 
profusion. Fine young plants, 29c each; 
3 for 82c, postpaid. 
New Hydrangea “Hills of 
Snow^* 
Immense snow-white panicles of blooms, 
literally covering the bush, absolutely hardy, 
standing 20 degrees below zero without injury. 
Its long season from early June through Sep¬ 
tember renders it doubly valuable as there is 
no shrub so grandly decorative. Strong plants, 
postpaid, 25c each; 3 for 70c; doz. $2.50. 
Larger plants, by express, 50c each; 3 for 
$1.45; doz. $4.95. 
Persian Tree Lilac 
Popular Favorites for Their Beauty and 
Perfume. 
A neat, handsome little tree, growing 7 to 
8 feet high, with slender branches and long, 
narrow foliage. The flowers grow in immense 
clusters, delightfully and deliciously sweet and 
fragrant. 
PERSIAN BLUE—Fine young plants, 35c each; 
3 for 95c, postpaid. 
PERSIAN WHITE—Fine young plants, 35c 
each; 3 for 95c, postpaid. 
Bush Honeysuckle 
TARTARICA—(Tartarian Honeysuckle ) — 
Flowers are of pink color, borne in great 
profusion in late spring. Fruits are red and 
very showy. Fine young plants, 30c each; 
3 for 85c, postpaid. 
GRANDIFLORA—Large bright red flowers 
striped with white. Fine young plants, 35c 
each; 3 for 95c, postpaid. 
Hydrangea—Paniculata 
Grandiilora 
Unsurpassed for the lawn, hedge, or ceme¬ 
tery, 5 to 7 feet; hardy in all localities, the 
flowers are massive, cone-shaped, sometimes 
10 inches in length. Fine plants, postpaid, 
25c each; doz. $2.50. Larger plants, by ex¬ 
press, not prepaid, 35c each; doz. $3.50. 
Hydrangia Paniculata Grandiflora. 
Owing to Quarantine Restrictions we cannot ship shrubs to Arkansas 
