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ACER - Japanese Red-Leaved Maple 
Palniatum Atropurpureum Each $3.00, Doz. $30J)0 
Magnificent purple-red foliage, gracefully laciniated; one of 
the best of small-leaved shrubs. It is attractive at all seasons 
and makes a handsome specimen on the lawn or a colorful 
group in the foreground of the shrub border. 
ALTHEA; HIBISCUS - Rose of Sharon 
Erect growing shrubs of stately and formal shape, particularly 
well suited for screens or specimens in the shrub border. They 
bloom from July to frost and give color when most other shrubs 
have finished blooming. We offer two beautiful varieties of recent 
introduction, practically unknown, and in our estimation the two 
best. Their ultimate height is about 10 feet. 
Celestial Blue Each $0.75, Doz. $7.50 
A magnificent distinct and truly blue Althea. The gorgeous 
single disclike blue flowers are produced in large amounts. 
Planted with our white variety, W. R. Smith, it makes a most 
handsome color effect in the summer border. Plants we send 
out will bloom this year. 
Snowdrift Each $0.60, Doz. $6D0 
Giant single disclike pure white flowers fully 4 inches across. 
The flowers open flat and are produced in great numbers from 
early July until frost. The plants we send out will bloom the 
first year. 
Rubis Each $0.75, Doz. $7.50 
Very large wide-open deep rose-pink flowers with deeper cen¬ 
ter. The best and most brilliant of the pink shaded Althea. 
Infinitely better than the ordinary double varieties in common 
use. 
Althea Rubis 
ARONIA ARBUTIFOLIA 
Brilliantissima Each $0.60, Doz. $6.00 
Brilliant “Red Chokeberry" is a bushy shrub occasionally ex¬ 
ceeding 6 feet in height. Flowers white or flushed pink, pro¬ 
duced in corymbs during May, followed in autumn by clusters 
of scarlet berries which persist into the winter. Foliage assumes 
brilliant crimson colorings in autumn. 
AZALEA 
Just as the Rhododendron is the King of the Evergreen Shrubs, so are its 
cousins, the Azaleas, the aristocrats of the Deciduous Shrubs. In color, the 
Azaleas give an assortment of hues in much wider range than in the 
Rhododendrons—and flowering periods from mid-April to early July. While 
classed as acid soil plants they thrive in soils of considerable range, par¬ 
ticularly the Asiatic sorts, which even prefer some lime in the soil. The 
opportunities for using deciduous Azaleas are almost unlimited. Their 
graceful habit appears to good advantage in informal plantings either in 
wooded areas or in shrub borders, while many are most decorative used in 
the foundation planting where evergreens create a dark background for 
their vivid colors. They succeed equally well in sun or shade, preferring a 
moderately moist soil or a mulch of leaf mold. 
Culture. Plant in full sun, in the South in light shade, in soil freely 
mixed with leaf mold and peat in about equal proportions. A yearly top 
dressing of well-rotted stable manure or one pound of Wayside Gardens 
Plant Food scattered around each plant in the fall will help to produce 
abundant blooms. Remove faded flowers at once, do not let plants go to 
seed; never cultivate. Water freely in dry weather. All the varieties 
offered here are quite tolerant of lime and do well on alkaline soils. 
Japonica 15-18 inches high. Each $1.25, Doz. $12 j00 
Of easy culture, in fact a very vigorous grower, flame-orange 
and red flowers in great clusters in May. 
*Kaempferi 15-18 inches high. Each $1.25, Doz. $12.00 
(Torch Azalea). One of the most popular, hardiest and most 
satisfactory of all; a vigorous grower, never failing to produce 
its orange-red flowers in May; excellent as a point of emphasis 
in the mixed shrubbery border. 
Mollis Hybrids 15-18 inches high. Each $1.25, Doz. $12.00 
Mollis Hybrids 18-24 inches high. Each $1.75, Doz. $17.50 
Without exception one of the most satisfactory of all. The 
color range is through innumerable shades of orange, flame, 
yellow, and salmon-orange of the most brilliant hues. Like all 
other Azaleas, it is quite tolerant of lime, and does well most 
anywhere. It is very hardy, ten degrees below zero does not 
affect the flower buds. A group of these in bloom in the fore¬ 
ground of the shrub border is a delightful sight. Average height 
of old plants about 3 to 5 feet. 
Mucronulata 15-18 inches. Each $2.00, Doz. $20.00 
Mucronulata 18-24 inches. Each $2.50, Doz. $25.00 
One of the very first Azaleas to flower, opening rosy lavender 
flowers the same time as Forsythia, thus lengthening by sev¬ 
eral weeks the blooming period of the Azaleas. It will succeed 
in dry locations and it likes some lime. Can be grown quite 
successfully in slightly alkaline soils. Planted in front of a 
Forsythia, it makes a handsome combination. 
Louisa Hunnewell 15-18 inches high. Each $2.50, Doz. $25.00 
Derived from a cross between Azalea Mollis and Azalea Ja¬ 
ponica, this new variety is hardier than either parent and is 
more beautiful and floriferous. The huge clusters of buff- 
yellow flowers shading to salmon completely cover the plants 
while they are in bloom. One of the showiest. 
Pontica 15-18 inches high. Each $1.75, Doz. $17.50 
These are also called the Hardy Ghent Azaleas; they have al¬ 
ways been popular. The orange, pink, copper, salmon and 
yellow shades of their blooms you must see to appreciate their 
wonderful beauty. The lustrous leaves when young are covered 
with silky hair, and in autumn turn to dull red and brown. 
Schlippenbachi 10-12 inches high. Each $1.25, Doz. $12.00 
(Royal Azalea). A vigorous plant 3 to 5 feet high, with very 
large, showy flowers of pale rose-pink, the upper petals lightly 
spotted with brown. 
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