SPECIAL AND IMPORT PRICES FOR SPRING OF 1903 
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NOVELTIES IN SHRUBS, continued 
•RHUS Cotin us atropurpurea. This is a marked improvement 
on the well-known Purple Fringe, which I have always con¬ 
sidered one of the handsomest shrubs in cultivation. This 
shrub makes a splendid specimen. The introducer describes the 
plumes as scarlet, which is hardly true, but they are much 
deeper in color than those of the old variety. (See illustration, 
preceding page, which shows what a magnificent ornament to 
the lawn it is.) 75 cts. each. 
RUBUS sorbifolius. A Japanese Raspberry. Hardy, producing 
large, handsome, luscious fruit, resembling in size and form the 
strawberry ; red in color, and of sprightly subacid pleasant flavor. 
Large white flowers, fragrant. 25 cts. each. 
Xanthocarpus. Raspberry introduced from China. Forms a 
dwarf erect bush, 1 foot high; foliage ornamental; fruit yellow, 
aciduous flavor. 25 cts. each. 
•SAMBUCUS (Eider) nigra flora rosea plena. Very vigorous 
shrub, with double-rose flowers; awarded a silver medal at the 
Antwerp Exhibition. 25 cts. each. 
SAMBUCUS racemosa tenuifolla. Beautiful hardy variety, 
with fine deeply cut green foliage. The plant in its aspect much 
resembles some varieties of the Japanese maple, and may replace 
them in countries where these nice shrubs do not thrive well. 
75 cts. each. 
^VIBURNUM dilatatum. Not new, but very scarce; one of the 
best of the Viburnums; grows 8 to 9 feet high; small white 
flowers in June. The fruit is beautiful orange-red and ripens in 
September. $1 each. 
•WEICELA Eva Rathke. A new everblooming Weigela of great 
beauty; vigorous, and flowers all summer; flowers large, crim¬ 
son-red. A great acquisition that will become immensely 
popular. 25c. each, $2.50 per doz. 
Conquete. Flowers enormous. The largest flowered variety, 
deep rose, measuring 1% to 2 inches across. 35 cts. each. 
Praecox. Japanese sort; vigorous; branches erect; flowers car¬ 
mine-rose, throat marked with yellow stripes; blooms 3 to 4 
weeks before the other sort. 75 cts. each. 
A Few Shrubs of Exceptional Merit 
All of the shrubs offered in the general list that follows are desirable, and have their special uses. Some of them are as fine as any 
described below, but are too well known to need special description; but no grounds are so small that should not include all of the following: 
BERBERIS Thunbergii. The nurserymen all unite in praising this 
splendid shrub, and it deserves all the praise it gets, but the price 
has been kept pretty high. I have a large stock grown and offer 
it at about half current prices, so that my customers can afford to 
plant it freely. It has every good quality—beautiful habit, tine 
foliage, free-fiowering qualities—but its greatest charm is the 
great quantities of crimson berries which it produces in the sum¬ 
mer, and which remain on the bushes all winter, making it very 
effective in the winter landscape. It is also fine for cutting for 
house decoration, almost equal to the holly, which cannot be 
grown very well north of Washington or east of Philadelphia. 
This Berberis makes a splendid untrimmed hedge, and my low 
prices make it available for that purpose. 20 cts. each, $2 
per doz., $13 per 100; small plants, $0 per 100. 
CEPHALANTHUS occidentalis. This splendid native shrub is al¬ 
most unknown and has never been pushed by the nurserymen, 
although scores of inferior things have been praised to the sky 
and sold by the thousands. It is really unique, there being no 
other shrub at all like it. The foliage is luxuriant, bold and 
finely colored, and the white flowers, which are produced freely in 
July, when almost no other shrub is in bloom, are remarkable, 
being perfectly round in shape and about 2 inches in diameter. 
They are sweet-scented. This is an excellent shrub for general 
planting that I cannot commend too highly, and, like most native 
shrubs, is of the easiest culture. 20 cts. each, $2 per doz., $12 
per 100. 
EXOCHORDA grandiflora (Pearl Bush). 
This is one of the finest shrubs of its 
season (May) and when in bloom is 
covered with its lovely white flowers. 
This shrub has always been scarce and 
high-priced, but I have secured a large 
stock which I can offer at a low price. 
When planted fully two-thirds of its 
top should be cut off. 20 cts. each, $2 
per doz., $14 per 100. 
MAHONIA aquifolium. A splendid ever¬ 
green shrub, which shows a variety of 
coloring in its foliage at all seasons of 
the year and produces a great display 
of bright yellow flowers early in the 
spring. At times the foliage is as bril¬ 
liant and as rich in color as autumn 
leaves. It is not often used for the 
purpose, but it makes a splendid hedge. 
A good example of this can be seen on 
Judge Mellon’s grounds in this city. 
This shrub should be planted in the 
spring. 20 cts. each, $2 per doz., $12 
per 100. 
Speaking of shrubs, Miss Jekyll in her 
book. Wood and Garden , says : " What a 
precious thing this fine old Mahonia is. 
What should we do in winter without its 
vigorous masses of grand foliage in garden 
and shrubbery to say nothing of its use in¬ 
doors? * * * When one reflects that 
Mahonia Aquifolium is individually one of 
the handsomest of small shrubs, that it is at 
its very best in midwinter, that every leaf is a marvel of beautiful draw¬ 
ing and construction, and that its ruddy winter coloring is a joy to see; and 
further, when one remembers that in t lie spring the whole picture changes 
—that the polished leaves are green again and the bushes are full of tufted 
masses of brilliant yellow bloom and fuller of bee-music than any other 
plant then in flower. * * * * It is the only hardy shrub I can think 
of that is in one or other of its varied forms of beauty throughout the 
year.” 
RHUS Cotin us. This is a common old shrub, that almost everybody 
knows under the name of " Purple Fringe ” or w Smoke Tree,” 
but it is almost never seen in perfection on account of being 
ruined by pruning. In good soil, and allowed to develop natu¬ 
rally, it in time makes one of the finest things imaginable, which 
is well shown by the illustration taken from the English Country 
Life. 25 cts. each, $2.50 per doz. 
RUBUS odorata. This is the Flowering Raspberry, which grows wild 
by the-tens of thousands in many parts of this country. I want 
to call especial attention to it, for nothing can be better for cover¬ 
ing steep and partially shaded banks. It does best on moist north 
hillsides. It makes masses of most pleasing and effective foliage, 
and its large purplish red flowers are produced all summer. 20c. 
each, $1.25 per doz., $8 per 100. 
Since the above was written I have tested the shrub in my ex¬ 
perimental grounds, and have found it one of the most beautiful 
shrubs in my collection and one of the easiest culture. If it 
never bloomed its foliage would make it entirely satisfactory. 
It was planted in full exposure to the sun, in ordinary garden soil. 
