*FEIJOA sellowiana (8). Although this South American shrub is occasionally offered as 
a fruit bearer it is entitled to rank high solely as an ornamental. It makes a fairly 
large shrub; leaves green above, coated with gray felt beneath. The large showy flowers 
have (edible) petals, white on one side and purple on the other. Belonging to the 
Myrtle family it has many long dark red stamens in center of flower. The edible fruit 
is green, aromatic and highly flavored. Balled 3 to 4 ft. $5.00, 1% to 2 ft. $3.00. 
*MIAHONIA bealei (5), LEATHERLEAF MAHONIA. Often miscalled M. japonica which 
is entirely distinct, this fine hardy, erect shrub has bold pinnate leaves with large prickly 
leaflets. It is usually unbranched, when young anyway, and the bunched long racemes 
of yellow, intensely fragrant flowers coming out of the terminal bud are among the 
first to appear in late winter. In sunny regions it should always be planted in full or 
at least partial shade. Pot grown 6 to 8 in. $1.00. 
NERIUM oleander (9). Our wholesale business is a good indicator of “fashions” in orna- 
mental plants. During the last three or four years we have noticed a striking increase 
in demand for this sun-loving large shrub or small tree so we will again mention the 
comparatively new variety: 
Comm. Barthelemy (9). We like this the best of the varieties we imported from 
France a few years back. Flowers are very large, up to three inches wide, 
double, and a rich bright red, occasionally streaked white. Balled 2 to 3 ft. 
$4.00; pot grown 1 to 1% ft. $1.25. 
*OSMANTHUS forresti, FORRESTS OSMANTHUS (7). Osmanthus means fragrant 
flower so the botanical name is highly appropriate. This has creamy yellow flowers with | 
the delicious fragrance common to the genus. It is vigorous and soon makes a shrub 
of good size with unusually attractive foliage, the leaves getting as much as five to seven 
inches long with wavy margins. New growth is particularly striking as when leaves 
appear they are bronzy purple. Balled 3 to 4 ft. $5.00, 2 to 3 ft. $4.00; pot grown 1 to 
1% ft. $1.50, 6 to 10 in. $1.00. 
OSMANTHUS suavis (7). The following description which we first gave in G.A. ’45 
is adapted from Vol. III of Bean’s ‘“Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles’: Shrub 
to 12 ft., sometimes a small tree. Leaves lance-shaped, two or three inches long, dark 
glossy green above. Flowers white, fragrant, produced in mid-winter in clusters of as 
many as eight. Native of Northern India where it grows up to 10,000 ft. Closely related 
to the remarkably beautiful O. delavayi which is rapidly becoming known as one of 
our very finest flowering shrubs. Pot grown 1% to 2 ft. $1.25, 1 to 1% ft. $1.00. 
PHOTINIA arbutifolia chrysocarpa, CATALINA YELLOW CHRISTMASBERRY (8%). 
Curious things happen! That great favorite, our native Photinia arbutifolia, is always 
called Toyon or Christmasberry in Northern California but in Southern California is 
almost invariably called “Holly,” so the fact that it grew freely in the hills northwest 
of Los Angeles accounts for the name of the movie metropolis, Hollywood. This variety 
differs from the typical form only in the color of the clustered berries which are at 
first bright lemon deepening with age to golden yellow. Pot grown 2 to 3 ft. light $1.00, 
1% to 2 ft. (berried) $1.25, 10 to 15 in. $1.00. 
Flowering Fruit Trees 
This important group had to be omitted from G.A. ’45 due to scarcity and the situa- 
tion is worse yet this season as on account of shortage of skilled help we were unable 
to get them budded at all in 1944 so again have nothing to offer. 
Deeiduous Trees 
*ACER platanoides schwedleri, SCHWEDLER MAPLE (3). Unquestionably the Nor- 
way Maple ranks among the very finest shade trees. This is simply a variety of it dis- 
tinguished by its leaf color which at first is deepest purple later becoming bronzy purple. 
Not at all new but a very fine tree. 5 to 6 ft. $2.50. 
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