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Flowering Shrubs 
Crepe Myrtle 
ALTHEA 
(Rose of Sharon) 
JOAN DE ARC Large double pure white 
flowers. 
BANNER Clear pink double flowers. 
LUCY Large double rose-red flowers. 
AH varieties, 18-24 inches high, 25c each 
3-4 feet, 40c each 
BARBERRY 
NEW RED-LEAVED The foliage of this 
new variety is of 
a rich, lustrous, bronzy red, similar to the 
richest red-leaved Japanese Maples. To 
develop its brilliant coloring at all seasons 
is that it be planted in full exposure to the 
sun. Mail size, 35c; express size, 50c. 
THUNBERCII Promises yellow flowers 
in summer, followed by 
scarlet fruit, borne in dense profusion, 
clinging throughout most of the winter. 
Leaves color to scarlet and gold. Dwarf 
Barberry also used extensively for planting 
on borders in connection with other shrubs. 
Price, mail size, 25c; express size, 35c. 
FLOWERING ALMOND 
PINK Flowers double, rose color, one of 
the first to flower in the spring. 
Very showy. Price, by express, $1.00 each. 
WHITE Same as pink variety in growth 
and habit, but bearing white 
flowers. They should be planted together. 
Price, by express, $1.00. 
CREPE MYRTLE (The Glory of the South) 
During the hot summer days of July, August and September the 
interior sections of the South are sometimes a little devoid of color, 
but Crepe Myrtle is one dependable shrub or small tree which always 
flaunts a mass of color at that season of the year wherever it is 
planted. Watermelon ^Red, Pink and Purple. 2 to 3-foot plants, 
50c each. 
ABELIA 
One of our most beautiful, popular and satisfactory broad-leaved 
Evergreens. The graceful, drooping stems and branches are covered 
with dark glossy leaves which in winter assume a metallic sheen. 
From the middle of May until frost this plant produces an immense 
quantity of tubular-shaped white flowers about an inch long which 
are borne in clusters. Two-year plants, 18 to 24 inches, 40c each, 
$4.00 per dozen; three-year plants, 24 to 36 inches, 50c each, $5.00 
per dozen. 
BIRD OF PARADISE 
An irregular open shrub, with acacia-like leaves, and large clus¬ 
ters of exquisite flowers of yellow, with a fiery fountain of bril¬ 
liant red, hair-like stamens 5 inches long protruding from them. 
Grows equally well on coast or desert. 2-3 ft., 50c. 
BUDDLEIA 
BUTTERFLY BUSH A new, rather dwarf, compact growing 
variety of the Butterfly Bush or Summer 
Lilac. Has rich green foliage with silvery reverse and bears in 
late summer long racemes of rich lilac-purple flowers. 2-year, 
35c each. 
CALYCANTHUS 
SWEET SHRUB A bushy dark-leaved shrub with many sweetly 
fragrant chocolate-colored flowers in spring. A 
favorite of the old-time garden and should be just as much admired 
in the new. Mail size, 35c; express size, 50c. 
KERRIA—JAPANESE ROSE 
(ERRIA JAPONICA 
“Japanese Rose.” A hardy semi-deciduous 
plant with slender arching green branches, 
md many small, double, bright yellow flowers throughout spring 
ind summer. Mail size, 40c; express size, 60c. 
FORSYTH IA 
GOLDEN BELLS This is one the most useful shrubs for the 
permanent decoration of buildings. It can be 
easily trained over a wall, fence or tree trunk. The flowers are 
bell-shaped, of a clear yellow, and bloom before the leaves appear. 
It is the earliest shrub to bloom. 18-24-inch plants, 30c; 3-4-ft. 
plants, 40c. 
Butterfly Bush or Summer Lilac 
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