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GREEN’S QUALITY TREES, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
Butterfly Bush. This 
--- name 
was given it because it seems 
to attract butterflies in large 
numbers. This shrub, planted 
either in the spring or fall, 
will mature to full size the first 
summer, making a handsome 
bush of about four feet. It 
produces long, graceful stems, 
which terminate in tapering 
panicles of beautiful lilac- 
colored flowers that are of 
miniature size and borne by the 
hundreds on a flower head 
which is often ten inches long. 
A single plant will throw out 
as many as fifty flower spikes 
the first season, which in¬ 
crease greatly in number dur¬ 
ing succeeding years. It blos¬ 
soms from early summer till 
frost. 
Hydrangea Arbor- 
A Hedge of Hardy Hydrangeas 
Hardv Hydrangea. (Paniculata GrandiHora.)— 
---::-—- We urge our friends to plant 
the hydrangea. There is nothing that will gratify you, who 
love beautiful objects, more. Plant it for the following rea¬ 
sons: It is hardy, enduring the severest winters out> doors 
without protection. It is easily transplanted, not one in a 
thousand dying; never fails to blossom the first year 
planted; no matter how small the plant, it immediately 
buds out in great profusion of flowers, many of them as large 
as the head of a full grown child. It is thus attractive immed¬ 
iately after planting, gaining in beauty for ten or twenty 
years if properly pruned. It remains in blossom the longest 
of any flower, a single blossom remaining in beauty for a 
month. When the specimens first open they are a greenish 
white, later they turn to a pure 
white, and still later to a 
delicate pink. The hydrangea 
should be cut back at least 
one-half of each season's 
growth in order to get the 
largest specimens. If the 
branches of the bush are cut 
down nearly to the ground, the 
most beautiful specimens will 
be produced the same season. 
It can be grown in tree form. 
To get the best results, make 
the soil rich, it will grow any¬ 
where and on any soil. There 
is no plant on earth that I 
can recommend with greater 
confidence than the hydrangea. 
—C. A. Green. 
escens. Blooms very large 
- size, resembling 
snowball, but larger. Perfectly hardy. Blossoms from early 
June through August. 
YVicca Filamentosa. (Adams Needle or Spanish 
--- Bayonet.) A stately foli¬ 
age and flowering plant equally imposing in solitary or group 
plantings, always conspicuous. The broad sword-like foliage 
is evergreen, while mid-summer shows great erect branching 
stems bearing a showy display of pendant, creamy-wdiite 
bells. No flowering plant more showy. It is a gorgeous 
grower. and endures the most severe winters without 
protection. It blossoms year after year, for a lifetime, 
and its flowers look like white lily blossoms. 
Purple Fringe or 
Smoke Tree. Unlike 
- any other 
flowering shrubs, blossoms 
resemble a cloud of smoke. 
Much admired and conspicuous 
in flow T cr, and also pretty on 
account ofitsfoTiagein-autumn. 
A Bed of Yucca. Foliage like Century Plant 
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