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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
a condition adapted to the nursery business by establish¬ 
ing spacious offices in the main building, by injecting sys¬ 
tem in its every operation, by the liberal use of printers’ 
A Fine Block of Populus Bollear.a 
ink and by enthusiastic 
perseverance, these nurse¬ 
ries have gained deserved 
recognition as well as liberal 
patronage both locally and 
in many of the eastern and 
western states. In con¬ 
nection with these nurseries 
and in charge of an able 
landscape gardener, a land¬ 
scape department has been 
added to its activities. 
Connections are maintained 
in many of the principal 
cities and towns of which 
Franklin forms a center, 
where many well-planned 
and executed plantings 
bespeak both skill and abil¬ 
ity. 
Seeking to improve by 
hybridizing and -other 
methods certain classes of plants and families, these 
nurseries have come in possession of a number of 
novelties which will be introduced to the trade in the near 
future. Principal among these are a number of variegated 
foliage plants, so much desired in landscape planting, of 
which Berberis Thunbergii var. Silver Beauty deserves 
special attention as a beautiful member to a useful family. 
The Silver Beauty of which we print a photograph has 
been described in a recent number of the Florists’ Exchange 
as follows: 
“During the summer of 1905 and not as the result of a 
careful ‘Burbank-like’ plan of creation, but merely as a 
lucky incident, this variegated-leaved Berberis made its 
appearance in a bed of seedlings of Berberis Thunbergii, 
where its remarkable foliage and compactness caused it to be 
selected for further experiment and propagation, in the hope 
of perfecting and adding a new variety to the family. 
Often, variegations in foliage which are shown in the 
seedling disappear entirely bv a following year, and it was 
thought that, perhaps, the same would be the outcome and 
finish of this little Berberis. But, to the contrary, when 
planted in a rich soil the following Spring, and subjected to 
conditions which were calculated to return it to the green 
state of its parent, if there was any tendency to do so, the 
little seedling broke out from, every eye along the previous 
year’s wood with little dainty waxy white laterals, tipped 
and tinted with a delicate shade of salmon pink, which in 
turn, as they developed into foliage, carried the same colors 
with an added penciling of an emerald green; these colors 
it maintained throughout the Summer and early Fall with¬ 
out any variation or tendency to return green, changing to a 
decided light purple in the latter part of September. 
In the Spring of 1907, by propagation from soft wood 
cuttings, a number of additional young plants had been 
gained, each of which in development showed the same 
characteristics as the mother plant. These were lined out 
in different locations and subjected to many different soil 
conditions for a further trial as to the permanency of charac- 
Section of Field of Berberis Thunbergii Var. Silver Beauty 
