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Our Landscape Department will assist you in planning your Home Grounds 
Plan your home grounds before you plant. Our Landscape Department 
will be glad to suggest a pleasing arrangement and to furnish the needed 
trees and shrubs. You incur no obligation by consulting us. 
Buddleia variabilis. He de France. 
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Chamaecyparis (Retinispora) 
Japanese Cypress 
These are very interesting and important conifers for 
lawn, park, and mass planting. In the smaller sizes they 
are suitable for porch-box or tub. They thrive in a moist 
but well-drained soil. While rather pyramidal in habit 
they may be kept small by pruning, and they are among 
the most easily handled of all evergreens. There has been 
considerable confusion as to the correct name for some of 
this class; some state that it is Chamaecyparis, while others 
persist in the name Retinispora. The Retinispora is really 
the juvenile form of the Chamaecyparis that has simply 
retained the foliage of the seedling state. Thus we are 
listing the whole group as Chamaecyparis. 
Chamaecyparis obtusa. Hinoki Cypress. 30 to 35 ft. The 
dark green, lustrous foliage of this evergreen makes it 
highly desirable as a specimen. The ones we offer are 
all seedlings. 
C. obtusa compacta. Football Cypress. 3 to 4 ft. Its 
spherical shape and attractive green color throughout 
the winter make this evergreen excellent for foundation 
plantings. 
C. obtusa Crippsi. 10 to 15 ft. A slow-growing evergreen 
of the pale gold type. 
C. obtusa ericoides. Tom Thumb Retinispora. 3 to 5 ft. 
This compact evergreen of erect, dense habit turns red¬ 
dish brown in winter. 
C. obtusa nana. 4 to 5 ft. Due to its slow growth and low 
form, this evergreen is used by the Japanese in pots and 
in rockeries. It assumes the character of age while still 
young. The short branchlets are a deep green. Cercis canadensis 
CEDRUS atlantica. Atlas Cedar. 60 to 120 ft. The majestic propor- 
tions of this evergreen make it one of the most beautiful of all the 
conifers. The branches grow in a horizontal position. So picturesque 
do the trees become with age that a large reservation of them in Algeria 
is visited bj'^ hosts of tourists each year. 
C. atlantica glauca. Blue Atlas Cedar. 60 to 80 ft. A decidedly blue form 
of the Atlas Cedar which rivals the blue spruce in attractiveness and color. 
C. Deodara. Deodar Cedar. 40 to 60 ft. This true Cedar makes a beautiful 
tree. Its foliage is feathery and is of a pleasing blue-green color. The 
lower branches sweep the ground and give the tree a graceful but stately 
appearance. 
C. libani (libanotica). Cedar of Lebanon. 30 to 40 ft. One of the best- 
known and most prominent species of Cedar and one that is mentioned 
frequently in sacred history. Its dark green foliage and attractive manner 
of growth make it striking as a lawn tree. It should be used more often 
in this section. 
CELASTRUS orbiculatus (articulatus). Oriental Bittersweet. A high- 
climbing vine with yellow-orange fruit bursting with crimson seed. It 
is at its best in the fall and winter when the fruit is ripe. 
C. scandens. American Bittersweet. The well-known Bittersweet of our 
gardens is a most adaptable vine for fences, pergolas, and the like. It 
bears a profusion of orange fruit with red seed. The seed retain their 
color when cut and dried and will last the winter through in the house. 
Sprays of this vine are very popular here. 
CEPHALOTAXUS Fortuni. False Yew; Plum Yew. 6 to 9 ft. This Yew¬ 
like (its name means just that) evergreen makes a low, bushy effect. It 
bears plum-Iike seed, likes partial shade, and does best in rich soil. 
C. Harringtonia fastigiata. Spiral Plum-Yew. 5 to 6 ft. An upright grower 
that makes a beautiful effect in rich, partially shaded, protected situations. 
This evergreen is fine for formal work. 
CERCIDIPHYLLUM japonicum. Katsura-Tree. 15 to 25 ft. A small tree 
with foliage similar to that of the redbud—that is, delicately tinted. 
It is rare, desirable, and adds much to a clump of trees or large shrubs. 
CERCIS canadensis. Redbud; Judas Tree. 12 to 15 ft. Biblical history 
tells us that it was on the Redbud and not the elder tree that Judas 
hanged himself after betraying Christ, and the flowers that were originally 
white turned crimson in shame and hung their heads. This legend applies 
to the whole genus, of course, and not to the American species alone. 
The pea-shaped, violet-rose flowers are borne profusely in the early spring. 
C. chinensis. Chinese Redbud. 10 to 12 ft. The flowers on this tree are 
larger and darker than those on the American Redbud. This tree, also, 
has a more compact habit of growth. 
