CATALOGUE OF FLOWERING SHRUBS. 
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HOLLYHOCKS. — Breck’s Silver Hedal Strain. 
This strain has been awarded a silver medal by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and always 
obtained the first prize wherever exhibited. No other collection can approach this in variety of shades of 
color, length of spikes, profusion and texture of flowers and foliage. 
We offer a fine lot of strong, healthy plants, in all shades of white, carmine, dark maroon, salmon, 
apple-blossom, light and dark crimson, rose, yellow, purple and variegated. 25 cts. each ; $2.50 per doz.; 
$18.00 per 100. 
RUDBECKIA. (Cone Flower.) 
Handsome border plants of easiest culture. They produce a wealth of showy flowers suitable for 
cutting. 
R. Laciniata. Var. Golden Glow. 6 ft. Aug., Oct. Forms a self-supporting bush, with deeply cut. 
bright green foliage. 1 he flowers, which are produced in the greatest profusion, are three inches 
or more in diameter, very double, and rich golden yellow color. 25 cts. each ; $2.50 per doz. 
R. Ma xim a. 6 ft. June, Aug. Flowers 5 inches across, with tall cone-like centres and drooping, yellow 
rays. 25 cts. each ; $2.50 per doz. 
CLEHATIS. 
Elegant, hardy free-flowering climbers. 
Paniculata. J. he beautiful autumn flowering, hardy, fragrant white Clematis, now so popular. Plants 25 
cts. to $1.00 each ; $3.00 to $10.00 per doz. 
Miss Bateman. White; chocolate-red anthers. 50 cts. to $1.00 each. 
Flammula. (European Sweet Clematis.) Flowers small, white and very fragrant. 25 cts. each. 
Henryii. Immense, single, purest white flowers. 75 cts. each. 
Jackmannii. Large, intense violet-purple flowers. 50 to 75 cts. each. 
—Alba. Like preceding, except in color, which is pure white. 50 to 75 cts. each. 
Ijawsoniana. Large, rosy-purple, darker veins, 75 cts. 
Mad. Edouard Andre. Bright crimson. $1.00 each. 
Virginiana. (Amer. White Clematis ) A profusion of white flowers in August. 15 cts. each. 
HARDY CLIHBING PLANTS. 
Actinidia Polygama. A strong, clean vine from Japan. 
50 cts. each. 
Akebia Quinata. Of rapid growth, with shining foli¬ 
age and bluish clusters of fragrant flowers. 35 cts. 
Ampelopsis Englemanni. A variety of the Virginia 
Creeper, with bright foliage; fine color in the au¬ 
tumn ; the tendrils enable it to support itself like 
A. Veitchii. 25 and 35 cts. 
Ampelopsis Quinquefolia. (Virginia Creeper.) Well- 
known climber ; very vigorous. 25 cts. each. 
Ampelopsis Veitchii. (Boston Ivy , Japanese Ivy). 
Well-known particularly around Boston. It grows 
rapidly and clings to a wall or fence with the ten¬ 
acity of Ivy; the foliage is handsome in the sum¬ 
mer, and changes to a crimson-scarlet in autumn. 
For the ornamentation of brick or stone structures, 
25 cts. each ; $2.50 per doz. 
(Trumpet Vine). A quick-growing vine, bearing large scarlet flowers, very brilliant. 
Wax Work). A vigorous vine with conspicuous orange-scarlet berries in 
Retains its glossy green and bright foliage through the winter ; 
winter, flower white and 
Hall’s Honeysuckle. 
it can be especially recommended. 2s cts. each; $2.qo -per doz. wistaria. 
Bignonia Radicans. 
35 cts. each. 
Celastrus Scandens. (Roxbury 
autumn. 35 cts. each. 
Euonymus Radicans. Var. Variegata. 
nice plants 35 cts. 
Honeysuckle. Hall’s Japan. Abundant, vigorous foliage retained until early 
yellow, fragrant. 25 cts. 
Honeysuckle, Scarlet. Strong, rapid grower, bright scarlet. 25 cts. 
Honeysuckle. Belgica. Dutch monthly, very sweet scented, red and buff. 35 cts. 
Silk Vine. A rapid growing vine, will make 30 to 40 feet in a season, 35 cts. 
Wistaria Chinensis. One of the most elegant and rapid growing of all climbing plants, bearing long pen¬ 
dulous clusters of pale blue flowers in May and June. 50cts. 
Wistaria Chinensis Alba. White, otherwise similar to preceding. 
RHODODENDRONS. 
We draw our supply of Rhododendrons from what we believe to be the finest stock in the world. All 
the plants, even the smallest sizes, are symmetrical in form, well furnished, and have good fibrous roots 
that make transplanting comparatively safe. 
R. Catawbiense. 8 ft, June. This is one of the types from which the hardy named varieties originated. 
It forms a broad, dense bush with handsome, deep-green evergreen foliage, and bears at the extremity 
of each branchlet immense heads of clear lilac, spotted purple flowers. 1 ft., 75 cts. each; $9.00 per 
doz.; stronger plants, $1.00 to $2.50 each. 
R. Catawbiense Seedlings. Unnamed varieties, combining a great range of color, and almost as desirable 
as named sorts. 1 to 2 ft., $1 00; 2 to 3 ft, $2.30. 
R. Maximum. 10 ft., July. A hardy native. The foliage is the largest and most effective of all hardy 
kinds. The leaves are of the deepest glossy-green and often 10 inches long. The flowers are borne in 
immense heads 4 to 6 inches across, white, tinged with pink and yellow. This is of rapid growth, and 
is the latest flowering of all hardy kinds. Small plants, 75 cts. each ; $9.00 per doz. ; larger plants, 
$1.00 to $2.00. 
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