^ggELSEY’S HARDY AMERICAN PLANTS 
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OTHER DECIDUOUS SHRUBS 
ADELIA acuminata. 0 to 8 ft. A good shrub for wet banks and along streams. 
ALNUS rugosa. Smooth Alder, 5 to 10 ft. A much-admired shrub growth, especially along streams. 
- Showy catkins appear early. 
alnobetula. Alpine Alder. 2 to 10 ft. Low. diffuse shrub with elegant foliage, found on our highest moun¬ 
tains. Showy red-winged fruit. Damp ground. The best of the genus probably, 
incana. Speckled Alder. 8 to 25 ft. Fine shrub for borders of streams and ponds. Sharply serrated leaves. 
AMELANCHIER rotundifolia. Dwarf June berry. 3 to 12 ft. Dwarf species very desirable for its white 
showy flowers and edible fruit. 
AMORPHA fruticosa. False Indigo. 5 to 20 ft. Spreading bush, indigo-colored spiked flowers, for massing, 
herbacea. Southern Indigo. 2 to 4 ft. A smaller, better shrub than the preceding, with purple branches 
and blue or rarely white flowers. 
ANDROMEDA ligustrina; see Xolisma. A. mariana; see Pieris. A. racemosa; see Leucothoe. 
ARALIA spinosa. Hercules’ Club. G to 40 ft. A singular prickly-stemmed low tree or shrub with large, 
compound, tropical-looking foliage. A conspicuous plant winter or summer, giving quick effect. Large 
panicles of white showy flowers in August. 
ARONIA (Pjirus) nigra. Black Chokeberry. 3 to 12 ft. One of our most desirable native ornamentals, 
conspicuous in flower and fruit. Of dense growth, literally enveloped in May with cymes of white flowers 
and later with black showy fruit. For single specimen or massing. Leaves color dark red in the fall, 
arbutifolia. Rei jkeberrv. 2 to 12 ft. Of larger growth than preceding, with splendid bright red ber¬ 
ries. An elegun. ^..rub. 
ASCYRUM hypericoid33. St. Andrew’s Cross. 5 to lfl in. 
yellow flowers from July to September. Shrub border. 
BACCHARIS halimifolia. Groundsel. 3 to 5 ft. Usually a seashore plant, and one of the few shrub com¬ 
posites. Yellowish flowers; the long white fruits very conspicuous in autumn. 
BENZOIN benzoin. Spice Bush. 4 to 20 ft. Fine shrub for moist situations. The abundant yellow flowers 
appear in early April on naked branches, and by summer time 
the obovoid berries are bright red and conspicuous. Whole plant 
aromatic, sometimes used for tea. 
BERBERIS aquifolium. Creeping Barberry. 4 to 12 in. Low 
western mountain species, with charming, nearly 
evergreen leaves, which color crimson and deep red 
in fall. Fine rockery and shrub border plant. (See 
illustration.) 
canadensis. American Barberry. 1 to G ft. June. 
Yellow flowers in drooping racemes and very showy 
red berries hanging through winter, 
thunbergii. Japanese Barberry. 2'A to 3 ft. JS T ot native. 
Dwarf, spreading shrub, elegant foliage and fruit and compact 
growth. Much planted for hedges and masses. Added to our 
list because of great demand. 
vulgaris. Common Barberry. G to 8 ft. Pretty yellow flowers 
in May, and the brilliant purplish red fruit hangs on till early 
spring. Erect habit. 
BUTNERIA (Oalycuntlins) florlda. Sweet Shrub. 4 to 8 ft. April to August. The rich chocolate-colored 
Mowers have a delightful strawberry fragrance. Indispensable shrub of thick growth, 
fortllls. Smooth Sweet Shrub. I to 8 ft. Quite similar, but with smoother and bright 
more upright growth. 
glnuoii. 
GALLIC ARPA 
peculiar violet-colored fruit Is very showy in autumn, being thickly 
CALYCANTHUS. See Butnoria. 
Decumbent species, dotted leaves and light 
Berberie aquifolium 
filter green foliage and 
oil. I to 8 ft. Species with largo leaves and larger flowers than preceding species; flowers not fragrant. 
3ARPA americium. French Mulberry. 2 to 3 ft. Peculiar bluish flower May to July The 
ouliur violet-colored fruit is very showy in autumn, being thickly bunched along the sturdy shoots’ 
CEANOTIIUS amorloana. New Jersey Tea. 1 to .'I ft. Diffuse shrub, covered with a profusion of delicate 
white Mowers in July when Moworing shrubs are few. Fine bordei plant. 
CEPHM.AHTIIDS ooolclontnlis. Button Bush. .1 to 12 ft. Elegant thick-growing sbnib for damp ground. 
Globular heads of white Mowers in July. 1 b 
GHIONANTHUS vlrglnloa. White Fu.noe. 10 to 40 ft. One of the most ornamental of all onr native 
HliruhH, with loose anil drooping graceful panicles of delicate white, fringe-like flowers, very fragrant in 
early May or Juno. Leaves color bronze, sometimes yellow in autumn. Ornamental purple fruit. 
CLETHRA acuminata. Sopthern Pepper Bush. 8 to 20 ft. Tall shrub with handsome reddish'bark and 
drooping ram-mes o( white Mowers. Moist situations or slirubberv. July and August (See illustration 1 
iilnlfollii. Pepper : Bps,.. 5 to IS ft. Elegant, fragrant, upright racemes 'or spikes^ 
cuin.ru K "(See Illustration ) " “ "" y 8l,imtlon 1,11,1 is 0,le ,,£ 011r ">°st charming native shrubs of easy 
(See illustration.) 
CLIFTONIA ligustrina. 0 to 20 ft. Of questionable hardiness north of New York or Boston. Damp ground 
Long ruoomos oi fragrant white Mowers in March and April. b 
COMPTON! A poregrlna. Sweet Pern. 2 to 3 ft. Pine native shrub with sweet-scented fern-like leaves. 
Brown catkins of brownish Mowers m May or June. Flourishes in sterile ground. 
OORNUS amonum. Sieky Oorneu J to 10 ft. Date-blooming (June) purplish stemmed species, with silky 
leaves and pale bine fruit in October. Flowers white, winter effect purple 1 * 
ulbn Hiuigulnon. Spari.et-Twkh.ei. Corse... 5 to 12 ft. Xot native. Fine scarlet-twigged sort 
oh'olnatn. Ropnd-Ekavei. (’ORNEt.. 3 to 15 ft. Branches greenish, fruit light blue. All the shrub dog¬ 
woods arenotod for their striking winter effects in shrubberies, nearly all species having highly colored 
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