SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1898. 
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Orange, Trifoliate—A new hardy Orange. This is the most 
hardy of the Orange family, and will stand our northern 
climate with little or no protection. In the parks of 
both New York and Philadelphia it is growing luxuri¬ 
antly and blooming and fruiting profusely. Think of it: 
you can have an Orange tree growing, blooming and 
fruiting on your lawn or yard. It is dwarf, of low, sym¬ 
metrical growth, with beautiful, trifoliate, glossy green 
leaves, and abundance of large, white blossoms. The 
fruit is small, bright orange-red in color. The fine ap¬ 
pearance of the plant with its constant habit of bloom¬ 
ing, and showy fruit combine to make a shrub of pecu¬ 
liar beauty. 
8weet Pea Shrub—The shrub of shrubs for bouquet makers. 
When it is in bloom it is really but a big bouquet itself, 
so full is it of dainty sprays of large, lovely rose-pink 
blooms to which the graceful pinnate foliage is an admir¬ 
able background. Very hardy and robust, and com¬ 
mences to bloom when but a foot high. Its glorious flow¬ 
ers are borne in clusters and are the size and shape of the 
most lovely Sweet Peas, but its color is more beautiful. 
The amount of bloom which one of these little shrubs 
will carry is astonishing, and the sight presented is one 
of remarkable beauty. Blooms profusely in June and 
July and to some extent all summer. 
Hydrangea Panlculata—Generally considered the most- 
valuable and ornamental shrub in existence. Bushy and 
robust, everv branch tipped in midsummer with an im¬ 
mense close panicle of flat, snow-white flowers of gigan¬ 
tic size The trusses of bloom are ten to twelve inches 
long and nearly as thick through, and last for two or 
three months, turning pinkish toward the last. Iso 
other shrub makes such a show on the lawn or is so uni¬ 
versally admired. Grand for cemetery use, and always 
blooms finely the first summer. 
Hydrangea Impreterlce Eugenia—A fine hardy sort, pro¬ 
ducing great flat cymes of sky-blue, among which are 
scattered great star-shaped white or pink blooms. Ex¬ 
ceedingly showy and a rival to the famous Paniculata. 
Magnolia Crandlflora— 
This is the Queen of the 
Southern Forest. It at¬ 
tains the size of a large 
tree, with enormous foli¬ 
age, which is glossy and 
wax-like and ever green. 
In early summer its enor¬ 
mous flowers are produc¬ 
ed, creamy-white, fully a 
foot across, and wonder¬ 
fully fragrant. The tree is 
hardy as far north as New 
York, and may be seen 
growing in the parks of 
that city and Brooklyn. 
There is no grander oo- 
ject in vegetation than 
this giant Magnolia. 
8plrea, Japanese — These 
new Spireas bloom from 
early summer until frost, 
and are not only very 
handsome in the flower 
garden, but are quite in¬ 
dispensable for cutting, 
furnishing the fine, feath¬ 
ery, fluffy spikes so neces¬ 
sary to bring out the beauty of a bouquet. Very easy to 
grow and entirely hardy. Six varieties as follows: 
Spirea, Bumalda —So dwarf and compact it can be grown 
where large shrubs would be out or place. A cloud of 
lovely rose-pink flowers for months. Very fine. 
8pl rea, Fortunei Rosea—A medium-sized shrub and a 
great bloomer. Panicles of delicate pink flowers of 
wonderful beauty. 
Spirea, Fortune! Alba—Like the above, but pure white. 
Spirea, Van Houtti—In early spring a weeping fountain of 
bloom, that cannot be counted fur numbers. Solid 
wreaths of snow-white flowers. Two and three feet 
long. Grand beyond expression. 
8plrea, Thunbergl—A lovely shrub, with pretty, dense* 
fem-like leaves that in autumn take on the most glowing 
high colors. The bush is a sheet of white blossoms in 
early spring, and grows to a good size. 
Spirea, Aurea—A grand shrub to group with the Purple¬ 
leaved Berberry. Leaves larger than other Spireas; trj- 
lobed, and shading from a light golden green to a rich 
orange-vellow; flowers white. Truly superb. 
Syrlnga, Mock Orange—This much resembles the Orange 
in bloom, but the flowers are large and more deeply 
fragrant. When in bloom their delicious orange odor is 
wafted by the breeze a long way. 
Tamarlx—A curious shrub, unlike any other. Slender 
growth, covered with peculiar, fine, feathery foliage. In 
spring it is a mass of spray-like blossoms of a clear 
Welgeila—We have seen canes of this throe and four fee* 
long one solid wreath of flowers from tip to end, and fifty 
more such canes could have been cut from the bush. 
