FLOWERING SHRUBS FOR EVERY PURPOSE 
3 
Crepe Myrtle. 
Spectabilis. Of Intermedia character, with very broad, heavier 
flowers. 
Suspensa. Graceful drooping form highly effective to plant 
on hanks or where the slender branches can trail their full 
length. It blooms in profusion in April. 
Viridissima. This is the one most often found in cultivation. 
It is of stiffer, more bush-like growth than the other. 
FRINGE (Smoke Tree) 
White (Chioanthus Virginica). A small native tree or shrub 
of roundish form, with large, glossy leaves and drooping 
racemes of pure white flowers having narrow fringe-like 
petals; blossoms in May or June. Superb lawn tree. 
Purple (Rhus Cotinus). An elegant, ornamental tree or large 
shrub, with curious hair-like flowers of pale, purplish color, 
that cover the whole plant. 
FLOWERING ALMOND 
(Amygdalis) 
White. A very picturesque tall-growing tree-like shrub. Flow¬ 
ers pure white, appearing before the leaves. It is very at¬ 
tractive when planted near Forsythia as they bloom about 
the same time. 
Pink. The same as the White, but has deep pink flowers. 
JAPANESE FLOWERING CRABAPPLE 
Pink. One of our beautiful flowering trees, medium tall 
grower, deep pink flowers, this tree makes a good back¬ 
ground in a shrub planting. 
Bechtels Double Flowering. An old variety, but still worthy 
of being catalogued. Beautiful double pink flowers, very 
fragrant. 
JAPANESE FLOWERING CHERRY 
A beautiful gift from Japan, to the United States. Thou¬ 
sands of people from all over the United States journey to 
Washington, D. C., every spring to view the Flowering 
Cherries in bloom along the Potomac River. The variety we 
offer produces beautiful double pink flowers in early spring. 
DOUBLE FLOWERING PEACH 
A very attractive tree and used a great deal in landscape 
plantings and for planting singly; flowers very double. We 
can supply in Pink, Red and White. 
GOLDEN ELDER 
A very attractive tall-growing shrub, beautiful golden foli¬ 
age and white flowers. 
CARYOPTERIS MASTACANTHA 
Blue Spirea. A variety of the Spirea family not so very well 
known as others and blooms at a different season. This 
Spirea blooms in late summer, and has showy blue flowers. 
CAPE JASMINE 
(Gardenia) 
A beautiful Evergreen Shrub, but not adapted to the north¬ 
ern climate unless grown in tubs and brought into shelter for 
the winter. Beautiful dark green glossy leaves; white flowers 
that are very fragrant. 
CREPE MYRTLE 
Lagerstroemia Indica 
A truly southern shrub, well known in this section. Grows 
to large size, dark shiny leaves and flowers produced in 
panicles from mid-summer until fall. Not hardy in the north, 
but no southern planting should be without this. We are 
offering white, pink, purple and red. 
DEUTZIAS 
Double-flowering (D. crenata flore pleno). Flowers double, 
white delicately margined with pink. This is deservedly 
one of the most popular and desirable flowering shrubs, and 
no collection can be complete without it. 
Pride of Rochester. Large, double, white flowers, the back of 
the petals being tinted with rose; excels most of the old 
kinds in flower and habit. 
Gracilis (Slender-growing Deutzia). Of small size, light 
green foliage; delicate, graceful white flowers. Fine for 
forcing. 
Deutzia, Lemoinei. Pure white flowers, borne in profusion on 
stout branches of upright growth. Dwarf habit, free flower¬ 
ing. 
EXOCHORDA 
Grandiflora. A superb shrub, furnishing clouds of bloom in 
May. The flower is large, pure white, in racemes of five or 
six, with spoon-shaped petals, which are very narrow and 
stand apart at the base. The bush is large-growing, at¬ 
taining sometimes 10 feet in height and nearly as broad, 
perfectly hardy. 
FORSYTHIA (Golden Bell) 
Intermedia. Early flowering shrub with bright golden flow¬ 
ers. 
Fringe or Smoke Tree. 
