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Oriental Flowering Trees and Shrubs 
Flowering Dogwood (Cornus) 
CoRNUS Florida is the familiar white flowering Dogwood. Under favor¬ 
able circumstances it grows 12 to 20 feet high, but usually it is a spreading 
tree approximately 10 to 12 feet high. The general impression is that there 
is only one variety of the White Flowering Dogwood. As a matter of fact, 
there are many, but as this is not generally recognized by the public, the 
nurseryman has made no attempt to separate the varieties. Some varieties 
produce broad, flat flowers with enormous wide, shapely bracts. Others 
have somewhat smaller and more irregular bracts. A few are tinted yellow 
or pink, others are pure white approximately one-third or one-fourth the 
size of the largest bloom. We have attempted to specialize in the large- 
flowering sorts, but have a supply of the smaller ones also, although we 
have made no serious effort to keep them apart, as customers are rarely 
interested in these finer distinctions. 
Cornus Florida Rubra, pink or red Dogwood, originated in Philadel¬ 
phia s Fairmount Park. It resembles in every particular the common white 
Dogwood with the exception of the color, in which there is a variation. 
Dogivood. The white and pink 
Dogwood are among the best 
of our native flowering treeS '— 
perhaps not excelled by any. 
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