AND SHRUBS 


Azalea Scarlet 3 
New Hardy 
CRAPE MYRTLE 
May Day Tree 
No. 284 NEW! 
MAY DAY TREE 
(Prunus 
No. 336 
AZALEA SCARLET 
America’s most brilliant and 
most beautiful flowering shrub. 
BLOOMS CONTINUOUSLY FROM MID-SUMMER 
TO FROST. IMMENSE, ATTRACTIVE, BRIL- 
LIANT FLOWERS FOR THREE MONTHS. 
padus commutata). 
Early Spring’s Beauty Winner. 
And what a lovely thing it is, 
when during March and April it is 
a massive bouquet of long, snow- 
white, very fragrant flowers— 
way before other trees are in leaf 
or have a sign of bloom. These 
handsome clustered blooms are 
fine for cutting. Then later on, 
small fruits develop that are edi- 
ble and make good jelly, though 
birds quickly claim them in pref- 
erence to other, more valuable 
fruit. Grows rapidly, and may be 
Dwarf, very compact, grows 3 to 
4 feet in height. In April and May 
it is completely covered with a 
mass of large, Brilliant Scarlet 
Flowers. The entire shrub is a 
Solid Mass of Bright Crimson 
Color. In summer its heavy glossy 
foliage is attractive. In Autumn 
the foliage turns first to vivid 
scarlet, later to bronze, holds its 
foliage all Winter. Can be grown 
successfully in most sections. 
Plant in good, well drained, 
slightly acid soil and in partial 
shade. We offer Extra Select 4 
year old Bushes which will be 
Crape Myrtle, the South’s most beautiful 
Shrub, can now be grown successfully in the 
North. We have secured a strain which is much 
hardier. In the extreme Northern States, grow 
it just like Everblooming Roses, giving it Win- 
ter protection by mounding up dirt about 8 
inches high before severely cold weather. In 
Spring, uncover. Like Roses, Crape Myrtle 
makes its blooms on new wood and if the tops 
are killed back to the ground, it will send up 
new tops in the Spring, which will be covered 
with huge blossoms from July to frost. Select 
Ready To Bloom 11% to 2 ft. bushes, 90c each; 
Extra Heavy, Top Quality, 2 to 3 ft. bushes, 
$1.28 each. All colors same price. 
No. 316A Hardy Watermelon Red 
trimmed up for street or lawn Covered with a mass of blossoms No. 316B Hardy Apple Blossom Pink 
shade tree or left in bush form this year soon after planted. No. 316C. Hardy Snow White 
Perfectly hardy, as it preinated Beis eree cach Hushios: will sped) No. 316D Hardy Lilac Purple 
in Siberia. 3.4 ft. specimens, shipped with the proper type of No. 316E Hardy Dwarf Lavender-Blue 
soil in which they grew burlapped 
around the roots. 
No. 288 White Flowering DOGWOOD 
One of the most beautiful of all our native trees. Flowers are large white and produced in clusters 
before leaves appear, the flowers are followed in the Fall by numerous red berries and Autumn color 
of foliage is quite brilliant. A fine specimen tree for lawn. Attractive when planted with Red Bud. 
Select 3 to 4 ft., $2.18 each; extra heavy 4 to 5 ft., $2.98 each. . 
No. 286 Red Ylowering DOGWOOD 
(Cornus Florida Rubra.) This unique tree is rapidly becoming the most popular of 
the FANCY FLOWERING TREES. It is called the Aristocrat among the finest plant- 
ings in America. This small uniform tree is literally covered with large sparkling 
rose-red flowers often measuring three to four inches in diameter before the leaves 
appear in the early spring. Its grayish-green foliage makes it attractive during Summer, 
and in early Autumn the foliage turns to a glistening rich crimson. Our select trees are 
propagated from buds taken from fine specimen trees which have the largest and most 
vivid colored blooms. The tree is extremely hardy and will thrive in most sections of the 
United States. Our trees being budded will often bloom the same season planted. The 
Red Flowering Dogwood is conceded to be the most outstanding and the most distinct 
flowering tree in America. This year we are able to price this magnificent tree in reach 
of all. The following size trees are all large, heavily branched, transplanted trees. 
SELECT WELL BRANCHED SPECIMEN, 4 to 5. feet trees, ready to b)oom: $4.98 
each; two or more trees, $4.90 each. 
EXTRA LARGE JUMBO SELECT SPECIMEN, 5 to 6 feet trees, which will bloom soon 
after planted: $6.98 each; 2 or more trees, $6.90 each. Both size 
trees will be shipped Express Prepaid with soil burlapped around 
the roots. : 

$1.58 each; 4 to 5 ft., $1.98. 


Red Flowering Dogwood 

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