CHESTNUT HILL, PHILAD’A , PA. 
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Daphne cneorum. A charming, trail¬ 
ing evergreen plant, and a constant 
bloomer ; its small rosettes of bright, 
rosy-pink flowers are delightfully 
fragrant; it is slow to propagate, and 
so popular that nurserymen find it 
difficult to supply the demand. 
50 cents to $1.00 each. 
D. Genkwa. Japanese variety, with 
purple flowers. Fine. 50c. each. 
D. Mezereum. Small, erect branches 
and clusters of pink flowers in March. 
50 cents each. 
DESMODIUM. Attractive foli- 
aged plants of vigorous yet low growth, 
adapted to any good garden soil. Their 
great and unequaled merit lies in their 
late season of blooming and its continua¬ 
tion until cut down by frost. Few shrubs 
possess a more graceful arching of branches, 
and when in flower the effect is very showy. 
D. Japonicum. Pure white, pea-sliaped 
flowers in dense pendulous spikes all 
along the branches in late September. japan quince. 
A choice species. 75 cents. 
D. penduliflorum. Bare shrub, covered from August to October with compound 
panicles of rose and purple pea-shaped blossoms. 50 cents each. 
Deutzia crenata plena (Double Pink Deutzia). All the Deutzias are valuable 
and very profuse bloomers in the sixth month. This is one of the prettiest tall-grow¬ 
ing varieties. 35 cents each. 
D. crenata candidissima (Double White Deutzia). Very pretty. 35 cents each. 
D. crenata (Pride of Rochester). A fine double variety, rather earlier than D. cre¬ 
nata ; flowers pink in bud, but white when fully expanded. 35 cents each. 
D. crenata scabra (Rough-leaved Deutzia). The most vigorous grower ; flowers 
single, white. 35 cents each. 
D. gracilis (Dwarf Deutzia). A low, round bush, three or four feet in diameter; 
flowers pure white and graceful; one of the prettiest and most popular small shrubs. 
35 cents each. 
D. Waterii. White, free-flowering variety. New. 50 cents each. 
Elsegnus argentea (Silver Thorn). A rare shrub of most unique character, the bark, 
leaves, stems, flowers, and fruits being covered with small, silvery scales. Flowers 
yellow. A desirable plant and rare. 35 cents each. 
E. longipes. Native of Japan. Vigorous growth, spreading branches, and leaves bright 
green above and silvery white beneath, studded with brown scales. The small, yellow 
flowers are produced in great profusion on long stalks in summer, followed by orange- 
colored berries. 50 cents to $1.00 each. 
Euonymus Japonicus (Japanese Euonymus). A very pretty evergreen shrub, 
with green bark and glossy, dark-green foliage ; prefers a sheltered situation. 
75 cents each. 
Six shrubs of one variety for the price of five; twelve shrubs for the price of ten. 
