SPECIAL AND IMPORT PRICES FOR SPRING OF 1907 
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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 de¬ 
scribed 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: 
BEKBKRIS THUNBERG11 
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. We have a 
large stock grown and offer it at about half 
current prices, so that our customers can 
afford to plant it freely. It has every good 
quality —beautiful habit, fine foliage, free- 
flowering qualities—but its greatest charm 
is the great quantities of crimson berries 
which it produces in the summer, and which 
remain on the bushes all winter, making it 
very effective in the winter landscape. It 
is also flue 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 , 
$16 per 100. Extra strong plants, 30 cts. 
each, $3.25 per doz., $25 per 100. 
LIGUSTRUM Amurense (Amoor Privet). A 
more slender grower than the common 
Privet. Hardier than the California, while the foliage is finer ami 
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 imaginable. 25c. each, $2.50 per doz. 
RUBU8 odoratus. This is the Flowering Raspberry, which grows 
wild by the tens of thousands in many parts of this country. Noth¬ 
ing 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 
produced all summer. 20 cts. each, $1.25 per doz., $8 per 100. 
Rubus odoratus, continued 
Since the preceding paragraph 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 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. 
VIBURNUM tomentosum. We think this one of the most beautiful 
and satisfactory shrubs in cultivation. Closely allied to the Japan¬ 
ese 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 per¬ 
fect-shaped bush ten feet high and as many feet across. Its beauti¬ 
ful white flowers are produced in May. Strong plants, 35 cts. each, 
i $3.50 per doz., $25 per 100. 
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