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DESIRABLE SHRUBS 
Packets 25 cents each unless otherwise indicated 
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Acacia constricta—6 ft. Round heads of bright yellow flowers. Dry mesas of 
the Southwest. Hardy. 
ARCTOSTAPHYLOS, MANZANITA 
Evergreen shrubs with crooked branches and dark red glossy bark, 
clusters of white or pink urmshaped flowers and variously colored 
berries. 
TALL 
Arctostaphylos andersonii—6 ft. Crowded overlapping leaves. White flowers. 
Coastal mts. 
A. canescens—4 ft. Gray downy leaf. Light pink flowers. Mts. near coast. 
A. glauca, Great'berried Manzanita—7 ft. or treedike. Large white flowers. 
Huge brown berries. Southern California foothills. 
TALL—HARDY 
A. mariposa—5 ft. White'gray leaves. Bright red berries. Sierra Nevada foot' 
hills. 
A. patula, Green Manzanita—4 ft Bright green round leaves. Deep pink 
flowers. High montane to 9000 ft. 
A. pungens—Spreading, 4 ft. Small glossy leaves. Mts. of the Southwest. 
A. stanfordiana—4 ft. Pink flowers. Apple'red berries. North Coast Ranges. 
DWARF 
A. hookeri—Spreading. Small shining leaves. Pink-white flowers. Endemic to 
central California coast. 
A. pumila—Large low mats. Small downy leaves. Light pink flowers. White, 
red'cheeked berries. Endemic to Monterey Peninsula. 
PROSTRATE—HARDY 
A. nevadensis, Pine^mat Manzanita—Trailing. Shining narrow leaves. Montane 
in open pine woods to 9000 ft 
A. uva-ursi, Bearberry—Trailing. Small leathery leaf. Scarlet berries. Widely 
distributed. 
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Artemisia rockrothii—10 in. White stems. Silvery foliage. High montane to 
10,000 ft. Hardy. 
Berberis aquifolium, Mountain Grape—2 ft. Glistening compound hollydike 
leaves. Blue berries. Mts. of Pacific Northwest. Hardy. 
Cailiandra eriophylla, Fairy Dusters—12 in. Pale gray spreading branches. 
Finely cut foliage. Clusters of fragrant flowers with many long pink sta- 
mens. Western Texas to Mexico. Pkt. 50^. 
