Ornamental Trees, Flowering Shrubs, Etc. 
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Xant'ioceras sorbifolin. 
XOLISMA. con’inucd. 
formerly listed with the Andromethis, and resemble 
them in a general tvay, requiring the same treatment. 
X. ligustrina. Privet Andromeda. A medium-sized 
shrub, much branched, with many-flowered racemes 
of round, white, bell-shaped bloom. 
VIBURNUM Opulus. Cranberry Tree. 
A large native shrub, with ascend¬ 
ing’, smooth branches and broadly 
ovate, smooth. 3-lobed, coarsely 
dentate leaves. The outer flowers 
in the cyme are large, conspicuous 
and pure white. The fruit is very 
ornamental, roundish, bright red, 
translucent and acid, 
var. sterilis. Snowball. A form of 
the preceding, with large globular 
heads of pure white sterile flowers, 
hence the term of Common Snow¬ 
ball. It is an old-fashioned shrub, 
long in cultivation and greatly 
esteemed by our gardeners. 
V. prunifolium. Black Haw, Sloe. A 
large native shrub or small tree, 
with ovate, smooth leaves, cymes of 
flowers very attractive, snow-white, 
appearing in May. The compressed 
bluish black drupes are sweet and 
edible. 
V. tomentosum. Hairy Japan Vibur¬ 
num. Although its sterile form has 
been in cultivation for several years, 
this, the parent, is scarce in our col¬ 
lections. It forms a large shrub, with 
beautiful cymes of flowers, the outer 
inflorescence being sterile and very 
showy. A very valuable plant, 
var. plicatura. Japan Snowball. A 
popular and exceedingly attractive 
variety of the above, producing 
numerous globular heads of snow- 
white sterile flowers. 1'he dark 
green, tomentose foliage affords a 
pretty background for the bloom. 
XANTHOCERAS 
A small genus from the north of 
China, belonging to the Sapindacea 
or Soapberry family, with pinnate 
foliage and white flowers in terminal 
clusters. Hardy with us and rare. 
X. sorbilolia. A beautiful small tree 
or large shrub, with foliage re¬ 
sembling the Mountain Ash. I he clusters of 
flowers are especially attractive. 
XOLISMA 
A small genus of shrubs, natives of the eastern 
United States, Mexico and West Indies. I hey were 
STANDARD SHRUBS 
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pleasing effect produced in formal gardening work. As <u . ’ *: l c ,1 Altlrca will prove 
bordering wall!’, they are especially appropriate. A collec ton of assorted colors,^ Altlm^ wtll, rove 
much more reliable and sattsfactory that1 T ree Roses I I ‘ - j , r|iance shrubs with the lower branches 
trained with great care to secure perfect specimens, t n<-> I - . , . , . 
pruned off. We regard our collection as the most extensive and sat.sfa.tor> of an> tountry. 
LIGUSTRUM ovalifolitim. 
DEUTZIA, candidissima and Pride ol Rochester. 
DIERVILLA Candida. 
EXOCHORDA grandillora. 
FORSYTHIA Fortunei. 
HIBISCUS Syriacus (Althaea 1 , Amaranthus, Bicolor, 
Comte des Flandres, Carnea plena, Duchesse de 
Brabant, Elegantissima, Jeanne d’ Arc, Paeoniflora, 
ranunculiflora, sanguinea,Violet Clair and Variegala. 
KRAUNHIA frutescens t Svn., IVistaria frulescens .1. 
OPULASTER opulilolius (Svn., Kpir.ru opulifolia). 
PHILADELPHUS, cordata, grandillora, nivalis 11. pi. 
and sanguinea. 
SPIRAEAS, prunifolia and Reevesi. 
STAPHYLEA Bumalda. 
STYRAX Japonica. 
VIBURNUM, opulis sterilis Common Snowball ,, and 
V. tomentosum plicatum (Japan Snowball1. 
