PLAN and PLANT EARLY 
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We urge you to make plans for your anticipated plantings 
early, so that there will be no delay when the frost is finally out 
of the ground and it is suitable weather to transplant plants. As 
we do not encourage fall plantings we must work hard and effici¬ 
ently in spring to get everything done on time. 
The lists and descriptions in this catalog are arranged to help 
you to select just the proper plant for each of your requirements. 
First decide just what effects you want in your grounds, then 
select the plants which will produce these effects to best ad¬ 
vantage. 
You have probably noticed garden pictures in books or maga¬ 
zines and beautiful effects in your friend’s gai'dens which you 
would like to duplicate in your own. Plan definitely for these 
improvements now. 
SMALL TREES, Flowering or Unusual 
A cottonwood is a beautiful tree—in its place,—but its place 
is not on the average city lot. Most of the American Elm and Soft 
Maple planted in Denver during Mayor Speer’s time were much too 
close together ever to make healthy beautiful trees. 
There is a need for trees suitable for planting on city lots 
which will never get too large. There is also need for more bloom¬ 
ing trees, and a greater variety of trees. We have suggested be¬ 
low a list of trees filling these requirements, which might be more 
generally planted. Some of these are usually seen as large shrubs. 
but they may be trimmed to form 
FLOWERING CRABS, White 
to red fl. usually red fruit. 
HAWTHORNS, White fl. red fr. 
GOLDEN RAIN TREE, Yellow 
flower. 
JAPANESE TREE LILAC, 
White fl. 
CATALPA, White fl. long pods. 
CHERRIES, White fl. Edible fr. 
MTN. ASH., Orange berries. 
GINNALA MAPLE, Red fall 
leaves. 
MTN. ALDER, Miniature 
“cones.” 
SIBERIAN PEA, Yellow flowers 
EUONYMUS, Red and orange 
fruit. 
SEA-BUCKTHORN, Gray foli¬ 
age. 
REDLEAF PLUM, red leaves. 
good small trees. 
BIRD CHERRY, White fl. red 
fruit. 
CHOKECHERRY, White fl. 
black fruit. 
NANKING CHERRY, Pink fl. 
red fruit. 
BUCKTHORN, Black berries. 
SMOOTH SUMAC, Red berries. 
BLUE-STEM WILLOW, Blue 
stems. 
BUFFALO BERRY, Gray leaves 
LATE LILAC, Pink, fragrant 
flower. 
TAMARIX, Pink plumes. 
HIGHBUSH CRANBERRY, red 
fruit. 
NANNYBERRY, White fl. 
black fruit. 
MOUNTAIN BIRCH, Graceful 
habit. 
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