

Salix—French Pussy Willow 
SALIX - Willow 
French Pussy Willow Each $1.00, Three $2.75, Doz. $8.50 
Not the wild Pussy Willow but a fine cultivated French variety. 
Branches of this variety have been selling, at retail during the winter 
months in tities at from $1.00 to $2.00 per dozen. You can grow them 
on your own lawn! Enjoy these dainty silvery pink flowers every winter. 
A beautiful round shrub in summer or use them for tall screens or 
backgrounds. Cut the ends of the branches in January or February. 
Place them indoors in a vase of water. Watch them unfold their large 
catkins of silver-pink, fram 1 to 2 inches long. They will repay you 
many. times their cost in pleasure. Ultimate height 10 feet. Cut back 
branches to 6 inches when planting and each spring after catkins have 
formed to promote long, vigorous new canes. 
Purpurea nana Each 60c, Doz. $5.00, 100 $30.00 
Dwarf Blue-Leaf Arctic Willow. Discovered north of the Arctic Circle. 
A charming low-growing Willow excellently suited for edgings. Grows 
anywhere in wet or heavy soils where other plants perish. It is able to 
withstand the lowest temperatures encountered in this country, is of 
easy culture. Just the plant for low edgings, around beds or along walks 
in difficult soils or localities. The foliage is a lovely gray-blue-green. 
Can be clipped for formal effects or left natural as desired. Should 
be planted about 8 inches apart. May also be grown as single specimens 
in the rock garden. 
SORBUS - Mountain Ash 
Each $5.00, Three $14.00, Doz. $50.00 
This prolificly fruiting variety resembles the well-known Mountain Ash 
very closely. It does not grow quite as tall, only 20 to 25 feet, but pro- 
duces twice the amount of flowers and fruit. The branches literally bend 
under the brilliant loads of orange fruits. This small tree can be grown 
in every small garden without damaging nearby flowers. Transplants 
readily. We offer nice young trees about 6 feet tall. 
STEWARTIA 
Serrata Each $9.50 
(Often called the Hardy Camellia.) A rare small shrublike tree not 
unlike a Dogwood in growth and ultimate height. Foliage is a pleasing 
green in spring and summer, turning deep red to orangeé-scarlet in fall. 
It blooms in early summer, producing hundreds upon hundreds of white 
waxy cup-shaped flowers. The fringed edges of the petals and wealth 
of golden stamens add to their beauty. We offer 2-foot tall plants 
which establish readily without trouble and grow rapidly and will start 
to bloom the year after planting. 
FOOD FOR THOUGHT—As Well as For Your Flowers 
Plants, anything that grows in the soil, are exactly the same in their 
food needs as humans. There are plenty of what might be called the 
shot-in-the-arm kinds of ready mixed fertilizers. But they are mostly 
only stimulants. 
What your plants need is a balanced organic food. Not just a stimu- 
lant. They need one containing in right amounts, those things that 
make plenty of strong roots, produce good sturdy stalks, thrifty foliage 
and an abundance of good sized blooms. 
That’s exactly the kind of Plant Food we use at Wayside. Much of 
our success in growing such unfailingly fine plants is due to it. 
What it has done, and is doing for our 600 miles of plants, it will do 
for your garden. 
Turn to page 176 and get the full facts about it. 
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SPIRAEA . 
A very important family of shrubs. Most Spiraeas are sun-loving, but 
withstand much abuse in location and soil conditions, and are a source of 
joy and satisfaction. Each $1.00, Three $2.75, Doz. $8.56 
Bumalda crispa 
The ne ee foliage of this Spirea is crested and covers the plant 
i iving a most attractive effect. The flowers are deep crimson- 
aes cue throughout the summer. A choice, low growing shrub 
for foreground planting or a colorful low hedge which requires no 
pruning. Ultimate height about 24 to 30 inches. 
Japonica coccinea Each $1.00, Three $2.75, Doz. $8.50 
Similar in growth and habit to the Anthony Waterer Spirea. The 
flowers of this new variety are much better and richer crimson-red. 
No one will ever again plant the old Anthony Waterer once they have 
seen this fine improvement. Ultimate height about 30 to 36 inches. 
SNOWBANK SPIREA 
Mongolica Each $1.50, Three $4.00, Doz. $15.00 
This is the earliest flowering of the Spireas, in full bloom along with 
the Forsythias. It is a gracefully slender but erect shrub about 4 to 
5 feet high at maturity. The branches are thin and arching, plenti- 
fully besprinkled with pure white flowers like snow lingering from 
wWaneer: tt is a dainty lar) very beautiful shrub with feathery fresh 
green foliage that in autumn turns orange and scarlet. Makes a 
fine informal hedge or attractive in groups or singly in the border 
where its early bloom blends beautifully with Daffodils and early 
blue Scillas. 

TAMARIX - Tamarisk 
Tamarix should be cut back to 6 or 8 inches when transplanted. If this 
is not done, success is doubtful. 
Each $2.00, Three $5.75, Doz. $20.00 
Summer Glow 
There is a lacy loveliness and charm about this lovely shrub not found 
in any others. The beautiful silvery blue-green foliage is like a veil. A 
sharp and delightful contrast is made by the airy wine-red flower spikes 
which appear on top of the delightful foliage all summer long. The 
flowers and foliage are lovely for cutting. This shrub is also excellent 
for seashore or lakeshore gardens, being very tolerant to salt air and 
wind. The plants we send out will bloom the first year. Ultimate height 
about 8 feet. Can be pruned and kept to 5 or 6 feet if desired. 
VITEX - Chaste Tree 
Macrophylla Each $1.50, Three $4.00, Doz. $15.00 
A graceful shrub’ with attractive spikes of lovely lavender-blue flowers, 
blooms profusely from July until fall and grows more than ten feet high 
unless pruned back. It is a most desirable summer-flowering shrub of 
distinctive appearance. Fits in well in the border and is also suitable 
as a lawn plant. Its form, foliage and lilac flowers are very unusual. 
ewels or Glass? 
The commonest plant of an inferior strain takes just as much space 
in your garden and requires just as much attention to grow, as does 
a really fine variety. Where space is limited, this fact is worth special 
consideration. 
Don’t let some ordinary plant monopolize valuable space in your 
garden merely because it increases fast and you “hate te throw it 
away.’’ Present it to a beginner and put in one of the newer beauties. 
This injection of new blood will keep alive and intensify your own 
interest and pleasure as well as that of your friends. 

Small Detail of Flowers of Lilac, Henri Lutece 

