Valdesian Nurseries, Bostic, North Carolina 
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Lilac Bush 
LILACS 
Persian Lilac —Five to six feet high with 
slender upright branches. Foliage rich green, 
blooming in early spring with pale lilac-colored 
flowers. Fragrant and popular variety. 
Each Per 10 
2 to 3 feet.$ .75 $ 7.00 
Heavy specimen plants . 1.50 15.00 
White Persian Lilac —Same as above with pure 
white flowers. 
Each Per 10 
2 to 3 feet .$ .75 $7.00 
PHILADELPHUS 
Philadelplius Syringa or Mock Orange —The 
Syringa is an invaluable shrub of vigorous 
habit. Hardy, with large, handsome foliage, 
this variety which bears beautiful, white flow¬ 
ers is valuable in any collection of shrubbery. 
Philadelphus Coronarius —A well-known shrub, 
with pure, white flowers, and a very early 
bloomer. 
Philadelphus Grandiflora — Foliage bright 
green, blooms in June, has large, white flowers 
with the exception of the center which is yel¬ 
low. 
Philadelphus Lemoinei— Branches slender and 
arching, flowers double in large racemes, very 
sweet-scented, and a dwarfish grower. 
Each Per 10 
12 to 18 inch.$ .30 $2.50 
18 to 24 inch.40 4.00 
2 to 3 feet.50 5.00 
HYPERICUMS 
Hypericum Aureum —Large-flowered St. John’s 
Wort. Useful for edging borders, grouping 
among shrubbery and evergreen plantings. 
Hypericum Densiflorum — Dense - flowered. 
Handsome shrub with numerous branches, at¬ 
taining a height of 3 to 4 feet. Flowers very 
numerous, in compound clusters of golden yel¬ 
low. This variety and Aureum are perfectly 
hardy, where the moserianum is only half 
hardy, and many times winterkills. 
Each Per 10 
$ .35 $3.00 
. .50 4.00 
PRUNUS TOMENTOSA 
A fruit-bearing flowering cherry. This is a 
very hardy bush cherry from North China and 
Manchuria. It first attracted attention in Ja¬ 
pan where it is not native but is grown as an 
ornamental. There it was grown and described 
by Thunberg in 17S4, and named Tomentosa 
because of its hairy leaves and slightly hairy 
fruit. It has been known and valued by land¬ 
scape gardeners and ornamental nurserymen of 
America and Europe for about half a century 
though its beautv has long been prized in the 
Orient. Its possible value as a fruit, however, 
has been overlooked until recent tests in the 
United States demonstrated its superior quali¬ 
ties. 
Not only does the bush endure lower tempera¬ 
tures, but it is adapted to more arid conditions 
and has proved to be hardier than the culti¬ 
vated SAveet and sour cherries of America. Its 
foliage is resistant to the common leaf diseases 
of other cherries. In Manchuria it is valued as 
a dooryard ornamental, while in the rougher 
portions of Manchuria it occurs on the hill¬ 
sides where the bushes are usually three to 
four feet high and, in early summer, are red. 
from the abundance of fruit, and it also suc¬ 
ceeds there in the plains regions where it grows 
in the drifting sand dunes. 
This wonderful little ornamental and fruit- 
bearing cherry is beautiful in blossom, coming 
into flowers in March in the vicinity of Wash¬ 
ington. Blooms very profusely, the branches 
being covered with flowers which open from 
pink buds just as the leaves start. Their bright 
red stalk and calyx make a handsome contrast 
with the white petals which are often blotched 
with rose. Later the brilliant red, sometimes 
white, fruit contrasts well with the rich green 
foliage. 
The bush rarely grows more than five to six 
feet high, although some old plants eight to 
nine feet in height occur. Its dense rich green 
foliage is resistant to the diseases of other 
cherries, and persists until after the first aut¬ 
umn frosts. 
Under reports from Washington, we find it 
thrives beautifully practically all over the Unit¬ 
ed States, even in Canada they report success 
(and no failures so far as we can find where 
plants have been propagated from bearing 
trees.) 
In Rochester, N. Y., 1922, some of these 
bushes ripened their fruit by June 25th, others 
not until the middle of July, while some fruit 
on the bushes in the middle of August was 
still in good condition. 
It is a valuable new introduction and we look 
forward to its becoming very popular, owing to 
its value in landscape work and fruit-bearing 
qualities. 
Each 
2 to 2 y 2 feet.$1.50 
1 to 2 feet 
2 to 3 feet 
