THE FINEST TREES AND SHRUBS 
We offer new seeds of all of the following Trees and Shrubs, but wish to caution you that many 
kinds of Tree and Shrub seeds are tardy in starting. Some are nuts and need to be filed before 
planting; others have impervious covering which retards germination. All should be sown in a retired 
bed which will not be disturbed for two or three years. Some will start in a reasonable time, and 
these can be removed. Germination, however, is variable and always more or less tardy. 
ACACIA Julibrissin, Albizzia, 30 ft. A hardy le¬ 
guminous tree bearing paniculate heads of 
white firs; has beautiful pinnate foliage, very 
handsome. 
ACER Pseudo-platanus) Rubrum, 50 ft. Leaves 
Sycamore-like, purple beneath, the breeze giv¬ 
ing a variable appearance; a rare handsome 
Maple. 
AILANTHUS Glandulosa, Tree of Heaven, 40 ft. 
Beautiful massive foliage and greenish-white 
terminal panicles of bloom; makes a fine speci¬ 
men. 
ALNUS Glutinosa, 50 ft. A fine, quick-growing 
tree, handsome foliage and pretty firs in early 
Spring. 
AMELANCHIER Botryapium, 8 ft. A very bunchy 
shrub with masses of showy white firs in early 
Spring, followed by clusters of palatable fruit. 
AMORPHA Fruticosa, 8 ft. A pretty native, the 
firs are purple and grow in spikes. 
ARABIA Spinosa, 10 ft. A handsome native, the 
firs are white in big umbels, splendid. 
ARBUTUS Unedo, Strawberry Tree, 8 ft. Flowers 
in drooping racemes, fruit scarlet, edible, 
blooms in late Autumn, at which time previous 
year's fruit is ripe; firs and ripe fruits are very 
pretty. 
AUCUBA Japonica,’ 5 ft. Leathery green leaves 
spotted white; female plants fruit freely, mixed. 
AZALEA Mollis, 3 ft. Bell-shaped bright colored 
flowers in clusters, from Japan, hardy. 
BERBERIS Aquifolium, 4 ft. A hardy shrub, firs 
are yellow in crowded erect racemes, fine. 
Thunbergii, 3 ft, golden pendulous firs, red ber¬ 
ries. 
Vulgaris Purpurea, 5 ft, deciduous purple foli¬ 
age, red Autumn fruit, a splendid variety. 
BETULA Alba, 50 ft. The European Birch. 
BUDDLEYA Variabilis, Butterfly Bush, 8 ft. Hardy 
Summer-blooming, firs lilac in showy spikes. 
BUXUS Sempervirens, a dense hardy evergreen 
shrub, used for edging and single specimens. 
CALLICARPA Americana, American Beauty. Bush, 
5 ft. A hardy native shrub laden with clusters 
of purple berries in Autumn. 
CALYCANTHUS Floridus, 5 Tt. The sweet native 
shrub; firs brown followed by large seed-fruits. 
Praecox, a beautiful Winter-blooming shrub, firs 
purple, very fragrant, axillary and terminal. / 
CARAGANA Arborescens, 15 ft. A Siberian Pea 
Tree, golden firs in April, hardy leguminous 
tree. 
CARPINUS Betulus, European Hornbeam, 50 ft. 
Good hedge plant if kept pruned, yellowish firs. 
CASUARINA Equisetifolia, 15 ft. From Australia; 
an ornamental evergreen pot plant. 
CATALPA Speciosa, 30 ft. A beautiful flowering 
tree, big terminal panicles of large white 
firs, in bloom it is very attractive; blooms 
quite young. 
CEANOTHUS Americanus, 30 ft. A fine Mexican 
shrub, firs lovely blue in cymes, give a shel¬ 
tered place. 
CALLUNA Vulgaris (Scotch Heather). 2 ft. Dwarf 
evergreen producing an abundance of rosy 
pink bell-shaped flowers. 
CELTIS Occidentalis, 50 ft. Known as Sugar 
Berry, fruits sugary, a handsome ornamental 
tree. 
CEPHALANTHUS Occidentalis, 6 ft. A bushy hardy 
shrub with globular heads of white bloom. 
CERATONIA Siliqua, 30 ft. An evergreen legumi¬ 
nous tree, leaflets shining green, firs red - in 
September. 
CERCIS Canadensis, 15 ft. Red Bud, a hardy na¬ 
tive tree_ showing masses of little red butterfly- 
like firs in early Spring, before the foliage, fine. 
CHIONANTHUS Virginica, Fringe Tree, 15 ft., also 
Grandfather Gray Beard, firs white in big showy 
clusters in Spring, a native ornamental tree. 
CITRUS Trifoliata, 20 ft. A hardy orange tree, th^ 
fruit small but beautiful, firs white, scented. 
CLETHRA Alnifolia (Summer Sweet), 3 ft. A hardy 
native shrub with lovely, deliciously scented 
white firs in spicate racemes from July until 
September. 
COLUTEA Arborescens, 8 ft. Firs yellow, freely 
produced during July and Aug., a hardy shrub. 
CORNUS Florida, 15 ft. The well-known Dog¬ 
wood; large white flowers in Spring; beautiful. 
Mascula, 12 ft. Cornelian Cherry; umbels of 
golden firs on leafless twigs in February and 
March, followed by red, edible cherry-like fruits. 
COTONEASTER Microphylla, an evergreen wall 
plant, preferred to Ivy, a profusion of white 
bloom in Spring, succeeded by scarlet berries. 
CRATAEGUS Pyracantha, 10 ft. Evergreen Thorn, 
clusters of white bloom in May, and in Autumn 
covered with red berries that remain in winter. 
Oxycantha, 15 ft. Hawthorne of English litera¬ 
ture. 
CRYPTOMERIA Japonica Elegans. A beautiful 
evergreen pyramidal tree, branchlets pendu¬ 
lous, very graceful, bronzy crimson in Autumn 
and Winter. 
CYDONIA Japonica, Japan Quince, 5 ft. Bright 
red firs in Spring, fruit green, delightfully 
fragrant. 
CYTISUS Laburnum, Golden Chain, 20 ft., firs 
are golden yellow in pendulous racemes from 
April to June, leguminous, very beautiful. 
DAPHNE Mezereum, Spurge Olive, 3 ft. A charm¬ 
ing shrub, firs red, fragrant, in clusters during 
( February and March; give it a protected place. 
DEUTZIA Crenata, fl. pi., 8 ft. Fine Spring double 
rose-tinted firs in terminal panicles. 
DIOSPYROS Virginica, 40 ft. Persimmon; seeds 
from delicious non-astringent fruit, excellent. 
ELEAGNUS Angustifolia, a handsome deciduous 
tree prized for fragrant yellow firs and red fruit. 
EUONYMUS Americana, 6 ft. Green bark, purple 
firs, pink strawberry-like fruits, scarlet seeds. 
EXOCHORDA Grandiflora, Pearl Bush, 12 ft. A 
lovely free-blooming, beautiful tree; the firs 
like Cherry blooms and cover the tree in May. 
FORSYTHIA Viridissima (Golden Bell), Vigorous 
growing, erect plant with long branches cov¬ 
ered with golden-yellow firs. 
Suspensa (Weeping Golden Bell). Fine plant 
with graceful drooping branches covered with 
beautiful golden bells. 
Forsythia separate or mixed. Pkt. 5c. 
FRAXINUS Excelsior Pendula, weeping Ash. 
Ornus, the handsome flowering Ash, very pretty. 
GENISTA Tinctoria, 10 ft. Firs golden, in profu¬ 
sion from July till September; of easy culture. 
GINKGO Biloba, 40 ft. Maiden-hair tree, fine. 
GLEDITSCHIA Triacanthos, Honey Locust, 50 ft. 
Greenish firs; big red seed-pods; pretty foliage.’ 
GREVILLEA Robusta, a fine tree South and beau¬ 
tiful pot plant in the North. 
GYMNOCLADUS, Kentucky Coffee Tree, 75 ft. 
Racemes of white bloom. May to July, big red 
^howy pods. Fall, seeds browned, ground, used 
for coffee. 
HAMAMELIS Witch Hazel, 8 ft. Golden firs. 
HAZEL-NUT (Corylus) 8 ft. Pretty firs in March, 
with ripe brown palatable nuts in Autumn. 
HEDERA Helix, most beautiful of our evergreen 
climbers, leaves leathgry, graceful, attractive. 
HIBISCUS Syriacus, Althea. Double. Mixed. 
HYDRANGEA Paniculata. Splendid Summer¬ 
flowering shrub. White flowers in dense pyra¬ 
midal panicles. 
HYPERICUM Calycinum, 1 ft. Large yellow firs; 
one of the handsomest of our shrubs. 
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