
Hardy Flowering Shrubs 
Purchaser pays transportation beyond 50 miles of New York. 
ALL SHRUBS OFFERED on this page are individually labeled and wrapped. 

Syringa - Lite 
Purple Lilac. Large showy panicles; fragrant. 
White Lilac. Delicious perfume; pure white. 
We offer the above two very popular varieties in 2 to 3-foot 
plants at $1 each, $11 per doz. 
French Hybrids 
SINGLE VARIETIES 
Charles X. 10 ft. Single. A profuse bloomer, splendid for 
cutting. Flowers violet-red. 2 to 3 ft. 
Ludwig Spaeth. 10 ft. Single flowers of dark crimson- 
purple; very fragrant. 2 to 3 ft. 
Marie Legraye. 10 ft. Single flowers of pure creamy 
white. A profuse bloomer. 2 to 3 ft. 
Above French Hybrids, $1.50 each, $16.50 per doz. 

Vitex ¢ Chaste Tree 
Macrophylla. 5 to 6 ft. Spikes of beautiful lavender-blue 
flowers in late summer, against the star-like gray-green 
leaves. 2 to 3 ft., $1 each, $11 per doz. 


Weigela 
These are among the most popular flowering shrubs, 
covered in May and early June by their large, trumpet- 
shaped flowers. 
Bristol Ruby. (New.) _ Plant Patent No. 492. An at- 
tractive shrub with ruby-red blossoms on entire plant 
from June through. July, and intermittently throughout 
the season. Six-foot fine-formed shrub at maturity. 2 
to 3 ft., $1.25 each, $13.75 per doz. 
Eva Rathke. Blooms all summer. The flowers are ruby- 
carmine. 5 feet high when mature. 2 to 3-foot plants. 
$1 each, $11 per doz. 


Syringa (Lilac), Marie Legraye 
Dig hole 2 ft. by 2 ft. Have earth-mark on shrub even with surface; spread roots 
NEW YORK 8, N. Y. outwards and downwards; work soil around them. Fill hole to the top; then water. 

Fr OO I Pe 
sapling (at right). The nuts are shown above 
Chinese Hybrid Chestnut 
Castanea mollissima 
Blight-resistant 
Develops into a Iow, spreading tree which should begin to bear 
three years after planting. Nuts are of excellent roasting or stuffing 
quality, medium large and freely produced. 
Blight-resistant Chinese Figen: is the American scientist’s answer 
to the Chestnut blight, which has killed nearly all our native Chest- 
nuts in the northeastern United States. 
Any good loamy soil will grow them, provided it drains well; avoid 
wet land. They are best planted in threes, neighbors codperating by 
planting one or two, where necessary; this is to insure pollination, on 
which the formation of nuts depends. 
Two-year saplings, $2 each, $5.75 for 3, $22 per doz. 
Hardy Flowering Shrubs 
Chinese Hybrid Chestnut tree in bearing three years after planting the 

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