10 Richards’ Potted Shrubs Bloom without Setback 

New or Noteworthy Deciduous Shrubs 
There are hundreds of deciduous shrubs—for a dozen years we have grown and tested them. For the 
average home —for the maximum of flowers and berries in good seasonal and color range—we here 
present 60 of the best. 
Some are newish, some are old; you will love them all. 
We ENDORSE THEM. 
To help in making the proper choice of varieties we have arranged the shrubs according to average height at 
maturity. Lack of space forbids a complete description of every variety but we have tried to point out the highlights of each. 
Where we do the planting of shrubs there is an additional charge of 30% of invoice. 
One to Two Feet 
CARYOPTERIS CLANDONENSIS—Bluebeard. Silvery 
foliage, small powder-blue blooms in profusion in late sum- 
mer when every other shrub is sut of bloom. Good cut- 
flower subject. Thrives in poor soil; heat and drouth-re- 
sistant. 
2-yr. $1.00.. 
COTONEASTER ADPRESSA — Creeping Cotoneaster. 
Low accent shrub par excellence. Sparkling, glossy foliage 
and a lavish display of red berries in autumn, suggesting 
holly. 
extra heavy 4-yr. $2.00 
2 to 3 ft. $2.50 
COTONEASTER CONSPICUA DECORA—Necklace Co- 
toneaster. Nearly prostrate habit, tiny leaves listed as 
evergreen are usually dropped here by the end of January. 
Only half-hardy. 
15 to 18 ins. $2.00 
LAVANDULA VERA—Old English Lavender. Reliable, 
drouth-resistant, evergreen sub-shrub; noted for fragrance. 
3-yr. plants 40c 
Two to Three Feet 
POLYANTHA ROSES in variety bloom continuously 
all summer long, are oak-hardy, are easy to grow. No 
other shrubs can compete with polyantha (sometimes in- 
correctly called “Baby Rambler’) roses for effective masses 
of color, for planting along driveways, or to brighten up 
deciduous and evergreen borders. Variety list and prices 
on page 17. 
EUONYMUS NANUS—Dwarf Euonymus. Slender arch- 
ing, often procumbent branches; narrowly linear foliage with 
good autumn color. Fruit is typical of the species—bright 
orange in showy pink capsules. 
Cloverzet pots $1.50 
POTENTILLA FRUTICOSA FARRERI (P. “Gold 
Drop”). One of the finest of all low-growing: shrubs, super- 
ior in every way to our native Cinquefoil. Holds the fine 
deep green color of its small fern-like leaves well into fall. 
Its blossoms, about the size and shape of strawberry blooms 
are borne in the greatest profusion in June and in lesser 
number continuously to late September; their color an in- 
tense daffodil-yellow. This rare shrub is easy to grow in 
sun or shade, one of our best suggestions for that oft- 
repeated query for a dwarf, hardy, dependable, everbloom- 
ing, showy shrub. 
3-yr. plants in large Cloverset pots $2.50 
SPIREA BUMALDI FROEBEL. Midsummer flowers in 
flat. clusters of dusky rose-red. Superb autumn foliage 
color. Heavy annual spring pruning required. 
heavy 5-yr. clumps $2.00. Divisions 60c¢ 
SHRUBS IN POTS 
A much larger selection of shrubs already planted 
and started for you is available this year. Our expert 
knowledge of the soil required and the best treatment 
during the starting period reduces your planting job 
to the ultimate simplicity and jabsolute minimum of 
labor; at the same time positively eliminates planting 
failures. Anyone can plant RICHARDS’ potted shrubs 
even in full bloom in the hottest weather and they 
will keep right on growing without the slightest wilt- 
ing or setback. 
Three to Four Feet 
GARAGANA AURANTIACA—Dwerf Peashrub. Leafs 
out very early (also ripens off too early, its only fault). 
Large, colorful orange pea-shaped flowers. A good shrub 
for those difficult hot, dry situations and particularly adapt- 
ed to low, formal hedge work. 
ZETOROMmtsee lei): 3 to 4 ft. $1.35 
LONICERA SPINOSA ALBERTI—Albert Honeysuckle. 
Low growing but wide spreading; give it room! Its nar- 
row, bright blue-green foliage and sweetly scented waxy 
lavender flowers are so different. 
1% to 2 ft. $1.00. 2 to 3 ft. $1.50 
PRUNUS GLANDULOSA ROSEA—Pink Flowering AI- 
mond. Showiest small shrub in early spring. Often a die- 
back proposition but if you have own-root plants this is of 
no serious consequence. Avoid grafted Flowering Almond 
—they invariably end up as a thicket of wild plum. We 
offer only own-root Flowering Almond. 
A toon tiepol. 2a: Cloverset pots $1.75 
RIBES FASICULATUM—Winterberry Currant Valued 
for late-persisting leaves and scarlet fruits remaining all 
winter. Still on trial here at RICHARDS’ but it looks good 
even though listed in Rehder’s Zone IV. 
1% to 2 ft. $1.00. 2 to 3 ft. $1.50. 
Four to Five Feet 
BERBERIS THUNBERGI ATROPURPUREA—Redleaf 
Japanese Barberry. Flaming red to crimson foliage all 
summer. High accent value; plant sparingly. 
2 to 3 ft. $1.25. 3 to 4 ft. $1.65 
CHAENOMELES JAPONICA—Flowering Quince. Defi- 
nitely a half-hardy item here but on those rare occasions 
when it does bloom it’s a mass of fiery scarlet. Plant in 
a mixed border, then when April freezes kill the flower 
buds they won’t be missed. - 
4-year plants in Cloverset pots $1.50 
COTONEASTER RACEMIFLORA SOONGORICA — 
Sungari Redbead Cotoneaster. Irregularly spreading habit 
with markedly two-ranked branchlets forming fan - like 
sprays of gray-green foliage. Its white flowers are larger 
than those of other Cotoneasters but its main show comes 
in autumn when laden with great crops of smoky red 
berries. Rare. 
2 tos Ite $2.00 
PRUNUS GLANDULOSA ALBA—White Flowering Al- 
mond, Hardier, later to come into bloom than the pink 
almond. We offer own-root plants in Clvst. pots at $1.75. 
RIBES ALPINUM— Alpine Currant. Early leafing 
shrubs of highest foliage value; a perfect foil for the more. 
conspicuous plants in a foundation plantng. Stands shade 
well, or full sun. 
2A tovdi iter odec 
_ POTENTILLA FRUTICOSA DAHURICA — Dahurian 
Cinquefoil. More upright habit than the native; small, silky, 
deep lobed gray-green foliage; snow-white flowers intermit- 
tently all summer. 
1% to2ft.75e. 2to3ft. $1.00. 8to4 ft. $1.59 
SYMPHORICARPOS ALBUS — Common _ Snowberry. 
Good, clean foliage; large white berries in fall and early 
winter. Suckers badly. Suited to shade, competition with 
trees and vigorous large shrubs. 
2 to 3 ft. 85c 
SYMPHORICARPOS ORBICULATUS — Indiancurrant 
Coralberry. Similar to S. albus but with small, bead-like 
crimson berries. 
2 to 3 ft. 85¢ 
