Select Hardy Shrubs. 
The prices named are for transplanted, well-developed plants to be shipped by express or freight—(they are much 
too large to be sent by mail). I have included in this list a few choice deciduous trees that can be readily packed 
and shipped with shrubs. 
A dozen of any variety offered will be supplied at ten times the price for one. Hundred rate of any variety 
promptly sent by mail, upon receipt of request. 
I solicit an opportunity to give special quotations upon lists of shrubs for landscape planting or home ground 
embellishment 
JAPANESE MAPLES. 
The most refined and graceful of all shrubs; the most 
airy and beautiful in habit and the richest in color of 
foliage of all hardy trees or shrubs. All are of shrub 
habit, though upon fertile soil they will, after many years, 
attain a height of 6 to 10 feet. The varieties of A. poly 
morphum have slender branches, densely clothed with 
lace-like foliage impossible to describe, in dainty, ex¬ 
quisite beauty. They retain their rich color throughout 
the summer and in autumn actually glow with radiance. 
ACER JAPONICUM AUREUM. Golden Japanese Maple. 
—Of slow compact growth, with large palmate translu¬ 
cent leaves of a most charming golden hue, suffused with 
green. 12 to 15 inches, each, $1.00; 1J4 feet, each, $1.50. 
ACER PALMATUM FELICIFOLIUM.—Large, flat, deeply 
divided, lace-like leaves which are light green at first, 
turning gradually to deep red; distinct and very beauti¬ 
ful. 2 feet, each, $1.00; 3 feet, each, $1.50. 
ACER POLYMORPHUM ATRODISSECTUM. Weeping 
Blood-leaved Japanese Maple. —Slender weeping branches 
and red foliage very finely cut, resembling lace. 
ACER POLYMORPHUM ATROPURPUREUM. Blood- 
LEaved Japanese Maple. —Of compact growth. Its deli¬ 
cately cut leaves are a rich, brilliant blood red in the 
spring, changing to purplish red in summer and turning 
to glowing crimson in autumn. 
ACER POLYMORPHUM LACINIATUM RUBRUM. Cut- 
leaved Blood Maple. —Similar to the Blood-leaved Jap¬ 
anese Maples, except the foliage is finely cut or fern-like. 
ACER POLYMORPHUM OSAKA ZUICI. Similar to A. P. 
purpnreum but a more robust grower. 
ACER POLYMORPHUM PURPUREUM.—Rich purple or 
maroon foliage; the richest in color of all. 
ACER POLYMORPHUM SCOLOPENDIFOLIUM.—Long, 
graceful, deeply cut foliage of a singular silvery green 
color; distinct and beautiful. 
ACER POLYMORPHUM YERSICOLOR.—The deeply cut 
foliage is pink, rose and light green, each leaf being 
margined with silvery white. 
Price (except as noted), fine bushy plants, \ l / 2 to 2 
feet, each, 75c; 2 to 3 feet, each, $1.25. 
Note.—Shrubs are too large to. ; ship by mail. Dozen 
of any variety will be supplied at ten times the price for 
each. 
ALTHEA. 
Rose of Sharon. 
RANKER.—Has large, very double pink flowers, striped 
crimson; very showy. 
BRABANT.—Targe, double soft pink flowers. 
CRESTED BEAUTY.—“.Entirely distinct from all other 
Altheas, being neither a double nor single, but with all 
the good qualities of both. Color pure white with a 
bright crimson eye, surmounted with a pure white crest. 
JERSEY BLUE.—Targe, double purplish blue flowers. 
JEAN D’ARC.—Very large, double pure white flowers 
The flowers measure three to four inches across and are 
produced in great profusion. 
LADY STANLEY.—Targe, double milk white flowers with 
crimson centers. 
MEEIIANT.—A new and valuable shrub with showy 
foliage. Its leaves are dark green, deeply margined with 
creamy white and the variegation is constant and pure 
throughout the summer. It blooms freely from July until 
late October, its flowers being single and of a pleasing 
purplish red color. One of the most valuable shrubs ever 
produced. 1^ to 2 feet, each, 35c; 2 to 3 feet, each, 50c. 
RUBRA PLENA.—Targe, double bright rosy red flowers. 
Price (execpt as noted), 2 to 3 feet, each, 20c; 3 to 4 
feet, each, 25c. 
Standard Alti-ieas. —These are grown with a single 
stem with a bushy head at top, similar to standard or 
Tree Roses. Well-formed specimens with 5 to 6 feet 
stems, each, 75c. 
FLOWERING ALMOND. 
Amygdalus Pumila. 
PINK.—An early flowering, very hardy shrub of dwarf 
habit; remarkable for its profusion of very double rosy- 
pink blossoms. The flowers resemble small roses. 
"WHITE.—Exactly like the preceding, except the flowers 
are pure white. 
Strong plants, 2 feet, each, 30c. 
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