ELLIOTT NURSERY COMPANY, PITTSBURG, PA. 
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A Few Shrubs of Exceptional Merit 
All of tin* Shrubs offered in the general list that follows are desirable, and have their special uses. Some of them areas fine as any 
described below, but are too well known to need special description; but no grounds are so small that they should not include all of the 
following: 
BERBERIS Thunbergii. The nurserymen all unite in praising this i 
splendid shrub, and it deserves all the praise it gets, but the price j 
has been kept pretty high. I have a large stock grown and offer j 
it at about half current prices, so that my customers can afford to 
plant it freely. It has every good quality—beautiful habit, line 
foliage, free flowering 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 our low 
prices make it available for that purpose. 20 cts. each, $2 per 
doz., $13 per 100. Stronger plants, 25 cts. each, $2.50 per doz., 
$10 per 100, Extra strong plants, 30 cts. each, $2.25 per doz., $25 
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 we have secured a large stock which we can offer 
at a low price. When planted, fully two-thirds of its top should i 
be cut off. 20 cts, each, $2 per doz., $14 per 100. 
HYDRANGEAS, Standard. Of the well-known hardy Hydrangea we 
have secured some fine standards. 50 cts. each. 
LIGUSTRUM Regelianum. The California privet has gained an im¬ 
mense popularity for hedging, which it does not deserve, as it is 
not reliably hardy, and in this climate every severe winter injures 
it, and sometimes it is frozen to the ground. The beautiful, grace¬ 
ful Kegel’s Privet is absolutely hardy and more desirable in every 
way. It is a dense shrub with stiff, twiggy, horizontal, spreading 
branches, drooping at flu* ends. An elegant shrub for specimens, 
massed planting or hedges. We believe it will become one of the 
most popular varieties as soon as it is better known. It forms a 
graceful, symmetrical bush, sufficiently dense for hedge purposes 
without trimming. As a single specimen or in a border of mixed 
shrubs it is most effective. It also gives pleasing effects when 
massed against buildings or on slopes or hanks. Price, 20 cts. 
each, $2 per doz., $12 per 100. 
Amurense (Amoor Privet). A more slen¬ 
der grower than the common Privet. 
Hardier than the California, while the 
foliage is finer and of a lighter green, 
and retains a better color during the 
winter. It makes a more satisfactory 
hedge than the California, and should 
be more extensively planted. 20 cts. 
each, $2 per doz., $12 per 100. 
RHUS Cotinus. This is a common old 
shrub, that almost everybody knows 
under the name of "Purple Fringe” 
or "Smoke Tree,” but it is almost, 
never seen in perfection on account of 
being ruined by pruning. In good soil, 
and allowed to develop naturally, it in 
time makes one of the finest things im¬ 
aginable, which is well shown by the 
illustration taken from English 
Country Life. 25 cts. each, $2.50 per 
doz. 
RUBUS odoratus. This is the Flowering 
Raspberry, which grows wild by the 
tens of thousands in many parts of this 
Rubus odoratus, continued 
country. We want to call especial attention to it, for nothing can 
be better for covering 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 pro¬ 
duced all summer. 20 cts. each, $1.25 per doz., $8 per 100. 
Since the above was written we have tested the shrub in our 
experimental grounds, and have found it one of the most beautiful 
shrubs in our collection and one of the easiest eultuie. If it 
never bloomed, its foliage would make it entirely satisfactory. 
It was planted in full exposure to the sun, in ordinary garden 
soil. 
VIBURNUM Opulus nanum. A most interesting little Snowball, 
never growing over 2 feet high, and as compact and globular in 
form as a sheared evergreen. We do not believe this shrub 
flowers, at least we have never seen it in bloom, but it is suffi¬ 
ciently attractive without flowers. Where a small shrub of 
formal shape is desired, nothing can be better. Splendid 
specimens, which are broader than they are high, 75 cts. each, 
$8 per doz. 
tomentosura. We think this one of the most beautiful and satis¬ 
factory shrubs in cultivation. Closely allied to the Japanese 
Snowball, but much hardier, in fact, perfectly hardy. More 
vigorous in growth and much handsomer foliage, which turns 
a beautiful wine-red in the fall. Either for planting in masses 
or as specimens it cannot be surpassed. As a specimen it 
makes a perfect-shaped bush ten feet high and as many feet across. 
Its beautiful white flowers are produced in May. Strong plants, 
25 cts. each, $3.50 per doz., $25 per 100. 
SAMBUCUS pubens. This is the Red-Berried Elderberry which grows 
so plentifully in the Adirondacks. It is a vigorous, free-growing 
shrub that does equally well in sun or shade. The flowers are 
inconspicuous; but the fruit, which is most freely produced, is 
extremely effective, being a brilliant crimson in color, which 
contrasts splendidly with its fine foliage It is the first shrub to 
ripen its fruit, being in full color by end of May, when the com¬ 
mon Elderberry is in bloom. 20c. each, $2 per doz., $15 per 100. 
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