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RICHARDS’ GARDENS 

Five to Six Feet 
COTONEASTER INTEGERRIMA—European Cotoneaster. 
Clvst pots $1.50 
More spreading and less bushy than the better-known Peking 
Cotoneaster. Bluish gray-green foliage and beautiful strands 
of berries of unusual smoky deep rose color. 
LONICERA COERULEA EDULIS—Sweetberry Honeysuckle. 
Clvst pots $2.00; 3 to 4 ft. specimen grade $5.00 
Rare and very desirable shrub of clean-cut, compact, sym- 
metrical habit.. Smooth, bluish foliage, pale yellow flowers 
followed by porcelain-blue berries. 
PHYSOCARPUS OPULIFOLIUS NANUS—Dwarf Ninebark 
extra heavy 3 to 4 ft. shrubs $2.00 
A smaller Van Houtte spirea with the added attraction of 
dusky red seed pods all summer and the habit of retaining 
fine foliage until very late autumn. 
RHUS TYPHINA LACINIATA—Cutleaf Sumac 
3 to 4 ft. $1.50; extra heavy 4 to 5 ft. $2.50 
Less rampant and more graceful than the type; branches as- 
end ef low, sweeping curves; leaves finely and deeply laci- 
niated. 
RIBES DIACANTHUM—Siberian Currant 
; ; extra heavy 3 to 4 ft. $2.00 
er more upright habit than R. alpinum and with lustrous 
oliage. 
R. FOETIDA BICOLOR—Austrian Copper Rose. 
Growing plants in pots $2.25 
A sprangly, bare-legged thing but no shrub attracts more at- 
tention when in bloom. Single flowers in a flashing color com- 
Pe of fiery coppery red inside, intense golden yellow 
utside. 
Six to Seven Feet 
COTONEASTER ACUTIFOLIA—Peking Cotoneaster 
Glossy, clean, dark green foliaze assumes fine orange and red 
autumn colors. Heavy crops of shining jet black berries per- 
sist most of the winter. 
2 to 3 ft. $1.25 3 to 4 ft. $1.50 Clvst pots $1.50 
COTONEASTER DIELSIANA—Diels Cotoneaster 
; ; 2 to 3 ft. $1.50 Otome fiees2-00 
Arching, wand-like branches with slightly tomentose ttaes 
which colors dark crimson in autumn are studded with scar- 
let fruits remaining well into winter. 
EUONYMUS ALATUS—Winged Euonymus 3 to 4 ft. $2.50 
: extra heavy 41% ft. $5.50 extra heavy 51% ft. $7.50 
Unique deep rose autumn foliage, interesting in winter with 
heavy corky ridges on bright green branches. Typical pink- 
and orange fruit. 
FORSYTHIA SPECTABILIS—Showy Forsythia 
' 144 to 2 ft. $1.00 Clvst pots $1.75 
When this does bloom here it’s a real highlight—masses of 
sprightly yellow flowers very early, before the leaves appear. 
Plant only in large mixed borders to minimize its legginess 
those seasons when it fails to bloom. 
PRUNUS TRILOBA 
SPIREA VANHOUTTEI—Van Houtte Spirea. 
Six to Seven Feet 
PHILADELPHUS VIRGINALIS—Virginal Mockorange. 
Clvst pots $1.75 
Leggy, upright-growing shrub covered with large double flow- 
a in May and repeating with semi-double: bloom all summer 
ong. 
PHILADELPHUS “MINNESOTA SNOWFLAKE” NEW! 
Clvst pots $2.25 
Graceful well branched shrub with good foliage; every blo- 
som intensely double, sweet scented, glistening white (or- 
iginator’s description). Plant patent No. 538. 
QUERCUS PRINOIDES—Dwarf Chinkapin Oak : 
Clvst pots $1.50 
A solid, substantial shrub with weeks of brilliant late au- 
tumn color, blazing scarlet sometimes highlighted orange. 
sometimes heavily overlaid crimson, its main show coming 
after most other shrubs have lost their leaves. 
2) to 3) £t..$1.00 3 to 4 ft. $1.25 
A Memorial Day favorite; also outstanding for deep-toned 
autumn foliage. 
Seven to Eight Feet 
SYRINGA CHINENSIS—Chinese Lilac, Persian Lilac 
Za bO) Seto tO O: 3 to 4 ft. $2.00 
Also known in the trade as S. rothomagensis but regardless 
of the name you choose to use its foliage texture, habit of 
growth and free-blooming qualities make this variety es- 
pecially suited to the widest possible use—specimen planting, 
massed shrub border planting and for tall informal hedges. 
Does not sucker. Its. reddish-purple flowers are borne in 
enormous clusters and in the greatest profusion from the 
ground up; begins to bloom regularly when only three feet tall. 
S. PERSICA LACINIATA—Cutleaf Persian Lilac 
2 to 3 ft. $4.00 3 to 4 ft. $5.00 
Very rare and interesting variety of more open habit with 
dainty, palmately-lobed foliage carried on arching branches. 
Panicles are extremely long and open and the color is dis- 
tinectly blue toned. We have what is probably the only 
stock of this between Detroit and the west coast. 
S. vulgaris hybrid, var. MME. CASIMER PERIER 
ZeOus hte GMO! 3 to 4 ft: $2.50 
A comparative dwarf among the tall-growing French hybrid 
lilacs and an early bloomer with short, compound, very full 
panicles of creamy white double flowers. 
PRUNUS TRILOBA—Flowering Plum Clvst pots $3.00 
Fully double light pink flowers in the greatest profusion in 
early Spring, just as the new leaves are unfolding. The most 
dependable large flowering shrub for this region, far superior 
to Flowering Almond in quantity and quality of bloom. Its 
luxuriant, pest-free foliage turns to pure gold in early Au- 
tumn. We believe we have the only own-root P. triloba in 
the country. Own-root plants are incomparably better than 
grafted plants. ‘ 
—most dependable 

