E D WA RD GILLETT, SOUTHWICK, MASSACHUSETTS 
DECIDUOUS SHRUBS AND TREES 
FORSYTHIA suspensa 'Weeping Golden Bell). A beautiful shrub with drooping 
branches. Flowers yellow, quite showy. 25 cts. 
F. viridissima. Flowers light yellow, in great abundance along the branches. 25 cts. 
GAYLUSSACIA frondosa (Dangleberry). A handsome shrub about 3 feet high, with 
striped bark and rather small green leaves. The flowers are greenish white, borne 
on long stems, followed by the large, delicious blue berries. Easily grown on 
moist soils. 25 cts. 
G. resinosa (Black Huckleberry). The common Huckleberry of our woods. Very 
sweet fruit. Grows about 2 feet high. 25 cts. each, £1.50 per do/.. 
HAMAMELIS Virginica (Witch Hazel). A tall shrub, with oval or obovate leaves. 
It flowers in autumn about the time leaves begin to fall, and matures its fruit the 
next season. 25 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. 
HYDRANGEA arborescens (Wild Hydrangea). The earliest of this genus to flower. A 
vigorous shrub 4 feet high, with flat cymes of yellow-white flowers. 25 cts. each, 
$1.50 per doz. 
H. radiata. A thrifty shrub from the southern Alleghany mountains, with white flowers 
similar to the above. The leaves are large, dark green on the upper surface, and 
woolly white on the lower side. The beauty is disclosed with every breeze, by 
turning a leaf here and there, and showing the woolly w hite against the back¬ 
ground of dark green. 1 lardy, forming good clumps. 25 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. 
H. paniculata (Panicled Hydrangea). A vigorous plant, thickly studded with long, 
terminal panicles of creamy white flowers in autumn. 50 cts. 
H. paniculata, var. grandiflora. 'Hie showiest of autumn-blooming shrubs. Great 
heads of creamy white flowers turning to shades of red. It blooms late in the sea¬ 
son, when most other shrubs are past blooming. 50 cts. 
HYPERICUM patulum (Spreading St. John’s-Wort). Low, 6 to 10 inches, spreading ; 
flowers large, yellow, quite showy. July. 25 cts. 
ILEX verticillaris (Black Alder, or Winter Berry). A native shrub, bearing in autumn 
beautiful scarlet berries, which stay on until well into winter. 25 cts. each, $1.50 
per doz.; strong clumps, 50 cts. each, $3 per doz. 
LAURUS Benzoin (Spice Bush). Grows 6 to 15 feet high, with large, oblong-ovate 
leaves ; forms fine bushy chimps, literally covered with small, spicy vellow flow¬ 
ers in early spring, 
followed by the rather 
large red berries. 
25 cts. each, #1.50 
per doz. 
LIGUSTRUM ovalifolium 
(California Privet). A 
very hardy Privet 
from California; 
growls 4 to 6 feet. 
The finest for hedge 
plants, also for sea¬ 
shore. One to 2 feet. 
25 cts. 
L. vulgare (Common 
Privet). Forms fine 
clumps. I r lowers 
white, followed by 
black berries. 25 cts. 
LONICERA ciliata (Fly 
Honeysuckle). Shrub 
3 to 5 feet high. Flow¬ 
ers greenish yellow. 
20c. each, $1 per doz. 
L. oblongifolia. Grows 
2 to 5 feet high, with 
yellowish white flow¬ 
ers, oblong leaves 
and purple fruit. 
Does well in cultiva¬ 
tion. 25 cts. 
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