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Flowering and Fruiting Shrubs 
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Prices, except where noted, 75c each; $2.00 for 3; 
Syringa • Lilac Including Named Hybrids 
Vulgaris. Common Purple Lilac. \ Widely used as specimens or for informal 
Vulgaris alba. Common White Lilac. £ hedges. Fragrant, beautiful, and popular. 
NAMED HYBRID LILACS 
The hybrids are not so vigorous as Vulgaris and produce larger flowers in more com¬ 
pact clusters. They are the finest of flowering shrubs. 
Alphonse Lavalle. Double; light blue. 
Charles Joly. Double; violet-purple. 
Charles X. Single; bluish violet. 
Hugo Koster. Single; dark reddish purple. 
Jan van Tol. Single; white. 
Marie Legraye. Single; white. 
Michel Buchner. Double; lilac. 
Mme. Lemoine. Double; white. 
President Grevy. Double; soft blue. 
Reaumur. Single; dark red. 
Souv. de Ludwig Spaeth. Single; dark red. 
$6.00 for 10 
Viburnum 
Carlesi. Waxy pink flowers early in 
Spring, to 2 ft., $1.50 each. 2 to 
2 Yi ft., $2.00 each. 
Opulus sterile. Snowball. Ball-shaped 
flowers in early Summer. 
Tomentosum. Fine, lacy flat flower 
clusters. 
Tomentosum plicatum. Double Japanese 
Snowball. 
Weigela 
Eva Rathke. Dull crimson flowers. 
Floribimda. Tall-growing crimson flowers. 
Rosea. Clear pink flowers. 
Any of the above Hybrids, 3 to 4 ft., $1.50 each 
Evergreen Shrubs 
Euonymus 
Calluna • Heather 
Vulgaris. Scotch Heather. Lavender 
flowers. 50c each; $4.50 for 10. 
Vulgaris alba. White-flowering variety. 
50c each; $4.50 for 10. 
Daphne 
Garland Flower 
Cneorum. Wiry bush with small gray- 
green foliage and clusters of bright pink, 
richly fragrant blooms in May and 
Autumn. 6 to 9-in. plants, 75c each; 
$6.50 for 10. 9 to 12-in. plants, $1.00 
each; $9.00 for 10. 12 to 15-in. plants, 
$1.50 each; $14.00 for 10. 
Radicans. Winter Creeper. Fine ever¬ 
green vine or shrub if grown without 
support. 
Radicans Carrierei. A low, bushy shrub 
with glossy leaves. 
Radicans minimus. Baby Winter Creeper. 
Small dark leaves. For rock-garden. 
Radicans vegetus. Pink-leaved Winter 
Creeper. Fine, heavy evergreen vine. 
75c each; $2.00 for 3 
Kalmia 
Mountain Laurel 
Latifolia. A splendid native evergreen, 
with huge clusters of frosty pink and 
white flowers. It grows well in shade or 
sun, but insists upon an acid soil and 
plenty of moisture. 15 to 18 in., $2.00 
each. 18 to 24 in., $3.00. 2 to 
2y 2 ft., $3.50. 
Leucothoe 
Catesbaei. Graceful, arching branches 
with thick, long, pointed, deep green 
foliage tinged with crimson on the 
under side. The greenish white flowers 
are pretty but unimportant. Fine for 
shade and leaf-mold. 
15 to 18 in., $2.00 each; $18.00 for 10. 
1 Y<l to 2 ft., $3.00 each; $27.00 for 10. 
Pieris 
Floribunda. Lily-of-the-Valley Shrub. 
Somewhat similar to Leucothoe, with 
panicles of greenish white flowers. 
Shade-lover. $1.75, $2.25, and $3.00 
each, according to size. 
Japonica. A more robust plant, with 
larger and more erect clusters of flowers. 
Thrives in sunnier place. 15 to 18 in., 
$1.75 each. 18 to 24 in., $2.50. 
FLORIDA HUMUS 
In preparing the soil for Rhododendron 
plantings, nothing compares with it. 
200-lb. crates, $4.50. See page 102 
Rhododendron 
Probably the most important of all 
evergreen shrubs. Their long leathery 
foliage remains in good condition over 
Winter. The plants vary in stature but 
all bear huge clusters of large tubular 
flowers like those of an azalea. These are 
acid-soil plants thriving in semi-shade 
where they may have a plentiful supply 
of moisture and perfect drainage. 
Carolinianum. A compact plant 3 to 5 
feet tall, with handsome foliage and 
clusters of lovely flowers changing from 
ale rose to deep pink. 15 to 18 in., 
2.75 each. 18 to 24 in., $3.00. 
Catawbiense. Vigorous evergreen 4 to 6 
feet high, with rich foliage and trusses 
of rosy purple flowers. The ancestor of 
most of our hybrid varieties. 18 to 24 in., 
$3.50 each. 2 to 2J4 j ft., $4.50. 
Maximum. The largest native Rhodo¬ 
dendron, growing 6 to 20 feet high, with 
pure white flowers in Midsummer. 
18 to 24 in., $2.75 each. 2 to 2% ft., 
$3.50. 
Hybrid 
Rhododendrons 
The joy that is to be had from Hybrid 
Rhododendrons is never realized until the 
plants that you want—because of their 
special color—have been acquired and 
planted in acid, peaty soil in which they 
will thrive. If happily located, they will 
pay dividends year after year, giving you 
increasingly greater returns in both foliage 
and flowers. 
Caractacus. Rich purplish red. 
Catawbiense alba. Pure white. 
Charles Dickens. Scarlet. 
Delicatissima. Blush, fading to white. 
H. W. Sargent. Crimson. 
Ignatius Sargent. Dark crimson. 
Mrs. C. S. Sargent. Clear rose-pink. 
President Lincoln. Rose-pink with promi¬ 
nent blotch. 
Roseum elegans. Rose-pink. 
Grafted plants, $6.00 and $7.00 each 
Rhododendron catawbiense 
