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PIGFORD NURSERIES, LUMBERTON, MISSISSIPPI 
Broad Leaf Evergreens 
ABELIA GRANDIFLORA —From May until frost the 
graceful arching branches are co-vered with clusters of 
tubular shaped white flowers faintly tinged with pink. 
The leaves are small lance shaped and glossy green turn¬ 
ing to a purplish bronze with metalic sheen in winter. 
This plant is useful as specimens, for hedges, or in group¬ 
ings for mass planting around foundations, etc. By pinch¬ 
ing off the long tender shoots during the growing season 
the plant will grow very dense and thick, price, 2}4 to 3 
ft., 50c; larger size, very choice, 75c. 
AZALEA INDICA — A densely growing evergreen 
shrub which in spring is covered with large bell shaped 
flowers. We have red, pink and lavender-pink, orchid. 
Price, 15 to 18 ins., $1.00, heavier, $1.50, B. & B. 
BOTTLE BRUSH —A beautiful evergreen shrub, leaves narrow, flowers bright red in 
brushlike spikes, opening in April and continuing in bloom several weeks. Price, 2 to 2% 
ft., branched, B. & B., $1.50. 
JAPANESE BOXWOOD —The South has longed for a good hardy, dwarf, compact box¬ 
wood that does not scald by the hot sun. This variety seems to be the plan-t we are looking 
for. It is fine for borders, formal plantings, boxes, etc. Can be kept sheared any desired 
shape or size. Price, 12 to 15 in., 50c each; larger, 75c. 
CAM ELIA JAPONICA —Well known evergreen shrub; large dark glossy green leaves; 
bush grows to height of 10 to 15 feet, and covered about February with large double blooms. 
We have red, pink, white and variegated. Price, 10 to 15 inches, $1.00 each; 15 to 18 inches, 
branched, $1.50 each, B. & B.; 18 to 24 inches, branched, $2.00 each, B. & B. 
CAM ELIA SASANQUA is a faster growing evergreen shrub with leaves smaller and not 
so waxy but covered in late fall with magnificent wide open single blooms with yellow center. 
Colors white and pink. Price, 1% to 2 ft., $1.00; 2 to 3 feet, branched, $1.50 each, B. & B. 
COTON EASTER PANNOSA —A beautiful slender, hardy evergreen shrub, leaves small, 
silvery white beneath, green above. White flowers in spring followed by red berries in 
winter. Price 2 Vz to 3% ft., well branched, B. & B., $1.00. 
COTONEASTER FRANCHETTI —Same as above except there is not the silvery sheen 
to leaves and the plant droops more gracefully. Price, 2Vk to 3*4 ft., well branched, $1.00. 
