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PLANTS FOR EVERY PURPOSE 
Flowering Shrubs for Every Purpose 
Flowering shrubs when planted properly and the proper varieties used, much can be done to beautify your home grounds at 
but little expense. 
You have all colors of blooms to choose from and of course their blooming periods extend from the early spring until the 
late fall. Whether you have a small place or a large one you cannot consider your “HOUSE A HOME” until it is properly 
planted on the outside. Spend a few dollars in this plan of furnishing—it cannot become second handed—a planting, if prop¬ 
erly done improves with age. 
ALTHEA—HIBISCUS 
Rose of Sharon 
These are tall, upright shrubs, very 
desirable for southern planting. Blooms 
in mid-summer and continues until 
early fall. These shrubs are particu¬ 
larly valuable for hedges and screening 
purposes, and can be had in a variety of 
colors, either single or double blossoms. 
BARBERRY—Berberis 
Thunbergi (Thunberg’s Barberry). It is 
a native of China, but was introduced 
from Japan. It forms a compact bush 
3 to 4 feet high, with neat little leaves 
that change to rich scarlet in autumn. 
The abundance of bright red fruit is 
exceedingly attractive. It bears shear¬ 
ing well and makes a dense hedge. 
BERBERIS WILSONAE 
Unusual small glossy foliage. Small 
golden yellow flowers produced in dense 
masses, and followed by salmon-red 
berries. Hardy south of Philadelphia. 
BUTTERFLY BUSH—Buddleia 
A quick-growing, graceful shrub, blooming in great profu¬ 
sion during mid-summer. Flowers borne on the tip of every 
piece of new growth and of a delicate violet in color. The 
tops in severe winter will freeze back to the ground, in which 
case the dead wood should be cut off. 
BEAUTY BUSH 
Kolkwitzia Amabilis. An exceedingly handsome new orna¬ 
mental Shrub from the wilds of China, resembling the 
Weigelia and Honeysuckle to which it is allied. Growing 
6 to 8 feet high at maturity with long arching branches, this 
variety combines all the merits of a perfect Shrub; hardi¬ 
ness, year around beauty of foliage and habit, and an amaz¬ 
ing profusion of pale pink bell-shaped flowers in lune. 
NEW RED LEAVED 
JAPANESE BARBERRY 
No doubt the majority of our custom¬ 
ers have time and again admired plants 
of the variety known as Red Leaved 
Japanese Maple. Two factors have 
prevented this particular sort from be¬ 
coming widely distributed—the fact that 
it is an exceedingly slow grower, and 
consequently expensive; and also there 
have never been enough to supply the 
demand. 
Now supposing, we were to tell you 
of a plant that does not cost any more 
than the ordinary ornamental shrub, 
that thrives luxuriantly in all soils and 
sections, is literally as hardy as an oak, 
and is available in quantities sufficient 
to fill any ordinary demands. All this 
is absolutely true in connection with 
this new Japanese Barberry, which is 
easily the most brilliant foliage plant 
that has been brought to our attention 
during the last decade. 
In habit of growth and general nature, 
this new Red Leaved variety is absolutely identical with the 
ordinary green foliaged Japanese Barberry so highly esteemed 
as the ideal dwarf hedge. But this new comer has excep¬ 
tionally bright red, lustrous foliage. In the fall this foliage 
changes from scarlet to vivid orange and reds of various hues, 
its beauty being but enhanced by great crops of brilliant scar¬ 
let berries which remain on the bushes throughout the winter. 
CALLICARPA 
Purpurea. A medium growing shrub that is becoming very 
popular, in fact very few landscape plantings are complete 
without it. The plant is of the semi-drooping habit, beauti¬ 
ful green leaves and purple berries in the early fall. 
Althea (Rose of Sharon). 
Butterfly Bush. 
CALYCANTHUS 
(Sweet-Scented Shrub) 
The Calycanthus, or known 
under the name by many as 
Caroline Allspice, is consid- 
sidered one of the best of our 
native shrubs. The flowers are 
chocolate-colored and very fra¬ 
grant and blooms during the 
month of May in the vicinity 
of Richmond, Va. 
The branches and leaves of 
this shrub are very fragrant 
when crushed in the hand. 
We highly recommend this 
shrub for use in landscape 
plantings mixed with other 
shrubs, or it may be used for 
screens and mass plantings. 
Beauty Bush. 
