KELSEY’S HARDY AMERICAN PLANTgfg^ 
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DECIDUOUS SHRUBS, continued 
ROBINIA hispida rosea. 3 t> G ft. A r.ire variety of the preceding, with paler (lowers and smoother stems, 
kelseyi. Alleghany Moss Locust. New species. 2 to T> ft. Introduced by us, and a lino variety with 
leaves much like the yellow locust and bright pink clusters of llowers. A distinct and valuable addition, 
viscosa. Pink-Flowerin ; Locust. 1*2 to 40 ft. Sometimes makes a considerable tree, with spreading 
growth and pink-rose dowers in great profusion. 
ROSA blanda. Meadow Rose. 2 to 4 ft. All the native Roses are valuable 
garden plants, free from disease and of easy culture. Nearly all the species 
are very showy, and should be planted in large masses. The foliage of many 
varieties colors shades of red and brown in late summer and autumn. Our 
collection is very line. Fruit usually red and always showy. J\. bUtuda has 
large pink dowers and smooth stems. 
arkansana. Arkansas Rose. 1 to 2 ft. Densely covered with slender bris¬ 
tles. A pretty species. June and July. 
Carolina. Swamp Rose. 1 to 8 ft. Thick, strong growth and bright pink, 
fragrant dowers. June and July. A good wet-ground species, 
humilis lucida. Pasture Rose. L to 2 ft. Weak, often procumbent growth. 
Rosy pink dowers in early June. 
lucida alba. White Pasture Rose. 1 to 4 ft. White variety of former 
species. Very line. 
nitida. Northeastern Rose. 1 to 3 ft. Slender stems covered with weak 
spines. Flowers very bright pink and showy. Leaves shining groin, 
nutkana. Wasatch Rose. 1 to 4 ft. Stout stems; large, solitary dowers 
and fruit. A rare western species. 
rubiginosa. Sweet Briar. 4 to G ft. A’ ot. native. Well-known, old-fashioned, 
aromatic Rose of gardens. Escaped cultivation and it is growing wild 
commonly. 
setigera. Prairie Rose. 5 to 12 ft. One of the most beautiful of 
the genus. Sometimes climbing or covering the ground or walls. 
A profusion of beautiful rose-pink llowers in June, 
woodsii. Wood’s Rose. 4 to 8 ft. Low, busby, western species. 
Delicate white or pink flowers. 
RUBUS nutltanus. Salmon Berry. 3 to 8 ft. Large white flowers. A shrub from the Viburnum 
Rocky Mountains, the stems recurving gracefully. ca88inoideB 
odoratus. Flowering Raspberry. 3 to 5 ft. Elegant plant for massing and quick effect. I , qi ... 
Very large, showy leaves and rosy purple blossoms. tboopngo 11 ) 
SALIX discolor. PussyWillow. 8 to 25 ft. Good shrub for wet situations, quick growth 
Silky "aments” appear in earliest spring before the leaves, 
scricea. Silky Willow. 5 to 12 ft. Showy spreading variety, densely dowered. 
SAMBUCUS canadensis. Common Elder. 4 to 10 ft. A lino shrub for massing. Showy 
cymes of white llowers in June and 
July and black-purple fruit, 
pubens. Red-Berried Elder. 2 to 
12 ft. Very showy dowers in May 
and handsome bright red fruit in 
June. 
SPIRAEA salioifolla. M e a d o w 
Sweet. 2 to 4 ft. Flowers white 
in June or July. 
tomentosa. Steeple Bush. 2 to 4 
ft. Fuzzy, dense, upright rose-col¬ 
ored panicles in June ami July, 
van houttci. 4 to 5 ft. Not native. 
Busby variety with abundant white 
llowers. 
STUARTIA pontagyna. SOUTH¬ 
ERN Stuartja. 6 to 15 ft. This, 
the so-called “American Camel¬ 
lia,” is one of the most rare and 
beautiful of all North American 
shrubs. An erect shrub, well 
foliaged and with large, axillary 
flowers, 3 to 4 inches across, 
with white-creamy petals, 
deeply crenulated in the mar¬ 
gins, resembling some of the 
single Camellias. June. See 
illustration. 
SYMPHORICARPUS raccmosus. 
Snow berry. 4 ft. A shrub much 
used for massing, the showy white- 
berried fruit banging till late in 
the season. 
symphoricarpus. ('oral Berry. 2 
to 5 ft With smaller berries than 
the preceding, which are red and 
thickly clustered. 
The creamy white dowers of Stuartia pentagyna, the rare 
"American Camellia” 
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