Shrubs and Trees 
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SAMBUCUS Canadensis. Common Elder. Collected 
plants only, 15 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
S. —, var. variegatus. The leaves are very bright, 
making it a beautiful shrub for contrasting with 
plain green ones in groups. 2 feet, 40c. each. 
SCHIZONOTUS discolor (/S/m 'ceci discolor, S. arioefolia ). 
Shrub 20 feet high, with creamy white flowers. 
Medium-sized plants, 25 cts. 
SOPH ORA Japonica. Pagoda Tree. Fine plants, 4 
to 5 feet high, 55 cts. each. 
SORBARIA Lindleyana (Spircea Lindleyana). Native 
to the Himalayas. 4 to 8 feet high. Large 
terminal panicles of white flowers. This species 
kills back, but comes up each year from the root 
and makes a fine showing. Strong plants, 
30 cts. each. 
S. sorbifolia (Spircea sorbifolia ). Flowers white, 
in panicles. July to August. Grows 3 to 6 feet 
high, and is a native to Siberia. 2-foot plants, 
25 cts. each. 
SORBUS melanocarpa. Chokeberry. A medium¬ 
sized shrub, with small, shining leaves, hand¬ 
somely tinted in autumn. Flowers pretty, 
white, followed by black fruit. 20 cts. each, 
$1.25 per doz. 
S. Aucuparia. European Mountain Ash. Five 
to 7 feet, 50 cts. each. 
SPIRAEA. Meadow Sweet. 
S. Billardii [S . salicifolia according to Index Kew- 
ensis, but horticulturally different]. Rosy pink 
flowers. 4- to 5-foot plants, 20 cts. each. 
Spiraea callosa [=Japonica, or alba?]. 20 cts. each,. 
$1.50 per doz. 
S. —, var. superba. More showy than the pre- 
ceding, with pale pink flowers. 20 cts. each. 
S. Bumalda, var. Anthony Waterer. 20 cts. each. 
S. Lindleyana. See Sorbaria. 
S. opulifolia. Ninebark. See Physocarpus, 
S. prunifolia, var. flore pleno. Two to 3 feet, 20 cts. 
each, 2 for 35 cts. 
S. superba. Low shrub; flowers large, pink. June 
and July. 15 cts. each, $1.30 per doz. 
S. Thunbergii. One of the handsomest. Branching, 
with many delicate white flowers; the handsome 
foliage turns in autumn to a reddish yellow tint. 
1 to 2 feet, 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz.; 2 to 3 
feet, 35 cts. each. 
S. trilobata. A very charming species, more dwarf 
and spreading in habit than S. Vanliouttei , with 
somewhat similar white flowers, coming into 
bloom a little later. 25 cts. each. 
S. Vanhouttei. A beautiful hardy shrub, with a 
profusion of white flowers in June. 20cts. each, 
$1.30 per doz. 
STAPHYLEA pinnata. European Bladder Nut. 
Plants 2 feet high, 20 cts. each. 
S. trifolia. Bladder Nut. 20 cts. each. 
SYMPHORICARPA racemosus. White Snowberry. 
Good plants, 18 to 24 inches, 15 cts. each, $1.25 
per doz. 
S. —, var. pauciflorus. Snowberry. This little 
shrub is valuable for planting on dry banks and 
bluffs. It does finely almost anywhere. 20c. ea. 
Spiraea Anthony Waterer. 
