WILD BROS. NURSERY CO., SARCOXIE, MO. 
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Safe £Arrival (guaranteed 
Call for shipment upon arrival and care for it as directed on 
the card that will be mailed you. Should anything be damag¬ 
ed by delay, which very rarely happens, we will refund or du¬ 
plicate it if you report at once. If by freight, express or truck 
we must have receipt for charges promptly, with agents nota¬ 
tion of damage or we cannot enter claim for damages. 
Size, Quality and Price 
You buy trees and shrubs not for a few months’ use but to 
grow into beauty. You can buy them for any price you want 
to pay, but it still remains true that you can’t buy the best for 
the least. You have to depend upon the reputation of the 
grower for quality stock. That reputation, after all, is more 
guarantee than anything he can say. Since 1875 this nursery 
has supplied quality trees and plants at fair prices. 
A deep well and irrigation system enables us to water the 
plants any time they need it. A modern, well equipped cold 
storage building with artificial refrigeration enables us to prop¬ 
erly care for the stock after it is dug, and while it is being pre¬ 
pared for shipment to you. You can depend upon well grown 
stock, liberally graded and properly sacked. 
There are some things, such as hardy perennials, the size of 
which can hardly be described. In most cases we tell you the 
size. Yet every nurseryman knows that one growers 3 to 4 
feet shrubs, for example, may be larger and better branched than 
An outdoor living room with its green carpel, its sweet flower¬ 
ing blooms and its friendly trees which throw a kindly shade 
others. Again you must depend upon the reputation of the 
grower. It is impossible for any nursery to furnish all varie¬ 
ties equally rooted or as heavily branched. He would like to. 
but they just don’t grow that way. An apple will be better 
rooted than a cherry, a spirea better branched than a sumac, a 
daisy larger than a phlox. Some roses will be larger than oth¬ 
ers. But we do promise you first class stock of its size and vari¬ 
ety. If we make a mistake, tell us—good natured if you can-—- 
but tell us. 
c 3 r tard~j flowering Shrubs beautify the Lawru 
On every side we see evidence that beauty has a real value. A 
lovely rug brings a better price, even though a perfectly plain 
one would answer every purpose of utility. Furniture of beau¬ 
tiful design and attractive finish adds to our pleasure in our sur¬ 
roundings. Shrubs make a beautiful display in a year or two, 
giving the lawn a nattractive, finished appearance. They give 
the best effect planted in groups along the boundaries or divi¬ 
sion lines of properties, at the edges or corners of lawns, near 
walks and drives, or as foundation plantings. A proper selec¬ 
tion will give you flowers from snow to snow. The golden 
Forsythias, fiery Japanese Quince and Spirea Thunbergi, with 
its white flowers like a mantle of snow, bloom before the leaves 
are developed. Lilacs, Deutzias, Spireas, Weigelias, Mock Or¬ 
anges, Buttrfly Bush, Hydrangeas and Altheas will carry the dis¬ 
play through summer. Hardy Chrysanthemums, the glory of 
autumn, will keep your garden bright in late October and early 
November. Some berried shrubs, such as Barberry, some with 
colored foliage, such as the Red Leaf Barberry, and Red-Twig¬ 
ged Dogwood, with its colored twigs, carry the display well in¬ 
to winter. 
Foundation planting of Barberry and other shrubs 
Foundation Plantings. High foundations may have the taller 
growing shrubs about the base, dwarf varieties being used for 
low foundations. The outlines of foundation and mass plant¬ 
ings should as a rule be irregular, and usually two or more of a 
variety should be used. The figures in parenthesis, as (5 to 6 
ft,), indicate the height at maturity in this section under ordin¬ 
ary conditions. The blooming dates named are the average for 
southern Missouri. 
Shrubs for Shady Situations. Success in shade is largely a 
matter of good drainage, fertility and sufficient humus or veg- 
table matter in the soil. The statement that a shrub is suit¬ 
able for partial shade assumes that reasonable attention has been 
given to these needs. No shrub gives satisfactory results in ex¬ 
cessively wet, excessively dry or too poor soil. 
Pruning. Shrubs blooming before midsummer, hence on the 
old wood, should be pruned after blooming or the flowers will 
be reduced in number. Those blooming after midsummer, hence 
on new wood, should be pruned in early spring. If you wish 
more complete suggestions than given in the descriptions, ask 
for our circular. When Shall I Prune My Shrubs. It is mailed 
free. 
Mail Sizes, Postpaid 
Those quoted as “mail size, postpaid,’’ while not as heavy as 
the others, are sturdy, well rooted young plants, and will, with 
reasonable care, give good results. In fact, they are such as we 
grow on to larger sizes. If others not quoted postpaid are de¬ 
sired by parcel post, postage will be additional. 
Five or more of a kind at the 10 rate, less at each rate. 
Abelia grandiflora; Bush Arbutus 
The delicately fragrant flowers are white, flushed pink, like 
small Weigelas, and clustered thickly at the ends of the main 
and side branches, from early summer till fall; small glossy, 
dark evergreen leaves; succeeds in sun or partial shade; mound 
in winter like roses, as the tops often freeze back part way; 
prune in spring. 18 to 24 inches, 75c each. 
Almond, Double Flowering Pink; Prunus glandulosa plena 
One of the most showy shrubs in early April, with its many 
double pink flowers about an inch across, clustered thickly 
along the slender branches before the leaves are developed; grows 
2 to 4 ft. high; prune after blooming. 18 to 24 inches, 45c 
each. 
