HARDY FERNS, FLOWERS, SHRUBS, ROSES, ETC. 
29 
FAGUS purpurea ( Purple Beech). Leaves of a very deep purple color. One of the 
very best for a lawn tree. Fine specimens, 4 to 6 feet. Si.25. 
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. 25c. 
GAYLUSSACIA resinosa (Black Huckleberry). The common huckleberry of our woods. 
Very sweet fruit. Grows about 2 feet high. 25 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. 
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 white against the background 
of dark green. Hardy, 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. The 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. 
ILEX verticillaris (Black Alder or Winter Berry). A native shrub, bearing in autumn 
beautiful scarlet berries, which stay on until well into the winter. 25 cts. each, 
$1.25 per doz. 
JUNIPERUS communis (Common or Prostrate Juniper). A prostrate evergreen 
shrub, appearing as if the center bud had been pinched out and the growth hadcon- 
centrated in the 
branches. Each one 
pushes outward and up 
a foot or more, forming a 
miniature tree in itself, 
the whole plant forming 
a beautiful shrub. 25c. 
J. Virginiana (Red 
Cedar). A beautiful 
shrub or tree, with small 
pointed leaves. A slow 
grower but very hardy, 
adapting itself to almost 
any situation, from the 
top of the rocky cliff to 
the sandy plain or moist 
hillside. Color varies 
from light to dark green 
and dull slate. 25 cts. 
KALMIA angusti folia 
(Sheep Laurel ). A low 
evergreen shrub, 1 to 2 
feet high, with light 
green leaves and quanti¬ 
ties of little saucer¬ 
shaped crimson flowers 
in May and June. Of 
easy culture, forming 
little clumps. 20 cts. 
each, $1.25 per doz. 
K. glauca (Pale Laurel). 
About a foot high, with 
little, narrow shining 
leaves, and large showy 
white to lilac - purple 
flowers. 20 cts. each, 
$ 1.25 per doz. 
Kalmia latifolia. (See page 30 ). 
