Hardy Shrubs 
Purchaser pays transportation beyond 50 miles of New York. 
ALL SHRUBS OFFERED on this page are individually labeled and wrapped. 
LILAC. Svringa. Wonderful spring-bloom- 
ing shrubs loved by everyone. They 
will thrive almost anywhere; recom- 
mended for difficult urban conditions. 
Mature at 12 feet. 
Single White Single Purple 
Above 2, 3 to 4-ft. plants, $1.50 each, 
$4.25 for 3, $16.50 per doz. 
French Hybrid Lilacs 
These have larger flower-heads and 
more striking colors than the sorts or- 
dinarily seen, as offered above. 
SINGLE VARIETIES 
Charles X. A profuse bloomer, splendid 
for cutting. Flowers violet-red. 
Ludwig Spaeth. Dark crimson-purple; 
_ very fragrant. 
Marie Legraye. 
profuse bloomer. 
DOUBLE VARIETIES 
Le po Enormous flowers; soft lilac- 
ue. 
Mme. Abel Chatenay. Large, double 
flowers of milk-white. A late variety. 
Above five French Lilacs, all 2 to 3 ft., 
$1.75 each, $5 for 3, $19.25 per doz. 
Pure creamy white. A 
Special Importation of French 
Hybrid Lilacs Just Arrived 
We have some wonderful colors in this 
shipment. AIIl are the Half-standard 
Type, each young bush having been 
grafted onto a 3 to 314-foot stem. Avail- 
able are: 
SINGLE 
Purple Shades 
DOUBLE 
Pure White 
Rich Purple 
Clear Lavender 
Above four, $4 each, $11.50 for 3, 
$44 per doz. 
MAGNOLIA Soulangeana. Tree grows to 
20 feet or more; beautiful in spring when 
covered with its enormous pink-white 
flowers. Very hardy. 3 to 4-ft. plants, 
*B&B, $15 each. 
RED-LEAVED MAPLE. Foliage is deeply 
cut and fern-like; tndispensable when 
color is looked for in the shrubbery or 
foundation planting, as a background 
for the rock-garden, or around the pool. 
Half-standards, 314 to 314-in. stems, 
18-in. crowns, $15 each. 
MOCK-ORANGE. Philadelphus. This old- 
fashioned sweet-scented shrub will grow 
in almost any kind of soil, and is tolerant 
of partial shade. Prune after flowering. 
Coronarius. This variety has large white 
flowers in early summer. 10 feet high 
when mature. 3 to 4-ft. plants, $1.25 
each, $3.50 for 3, $13.75 per doz. 
Mont Blanc. Graceful dwarf shrub, 
growing to not more than 3 feet, covered 
In early summer with dazzling white 
flowers. 2 to 3-ft. plants. 
Virginalis. 8 ft. Without doubt, the 
finest variety. Large, semi-double flow- 
ers of haunting fragrance. June. 3 to 
4-ft. plants. 
Above two, $1.50 each, $4.25 for 3, 
$16.50 per doz. 


BOXWOOD EDGING 
The correct thing for defining a drive- 
way, path, shrubbery, rose-bed or peren- 
nial border. Keep trimmed, mulch with 
leaves over winter, rake under limestone 
every spring. Hardy within 100 miles of 
N. 
Not recommended for northern 
and eastern New England. 
Suffruticosa. Fragrant. The dwarf 
small-leaved kind. 4 to 6 inches high 
(allow 4 per running foot), $3.50 per 
doz., $25 per 100. 6 to 8 inches high 
(allow 3 per running foot), $6 per doz., 
$45 per 100. 
FLOWERING QUINCE. Cydonia japon- 
ica. A showy shrub that blooms pro- 
fusely in early spring; flowers bright 
scarlet. 4 to 5 feet high when mature. 
18 to 23-in. plants, $1 each, $2.85 for 3, 
$11 per doz. 
REDBUD. Judas Tree; Cercis canadensis. 
Develops into a slender, graceful tree 20 
feet high. American native. In earliest 
spring, ahead of the leaves, it is covered 
with clusters of purple-pink, pea blos- 
soms. Young saplings, 3 to 4 ft., $1.75 
each, $5 for 3, $19.25 per doz. 
ROSE OF SHARON. Althaea; Hibiscus 
syriacus. Among the most valuable of 
our tall, hardy shrubs on account of 
their blooming from August to October. 
Height 10 to 12 feet when mature. 
Plants offered are 3 to 4 feet at present, 
and in the following colors: 
DOUBLE 
Purple Red White 
$1.25 each, $3.50 for 3, $13.75 per doz. 
SINGLE 
Red White 
$1.40 each, $4 for 3, $15.50 per doz. 
SPIRAEA. 
Anthony Waterer. Color bright crimson. 
A dwarf subject which blooms in July 
and August. 3 feet when mature. 11% 
to 2-ft. plants. 
Van Houttei. Bridal Wreath. In May and 
June the white blooms almost entirely 
cover the foliage. 8 feet high when ma- 
ture. 3 to 4-ft. plants. 
Above two, $1.25 each, $3.50 for 3, 
$13.75 per doz. 



RX 
Magnolia Soulangeana 




VIBURNUM. 
Carlesii. Fragrant Viburnum. 5 to 6 feet 
when mature. Large, round clusters of 
fragrant, waxy white flowers in early 
spring. We have these in bush (2 to 21%- 
ft. plants) and half-standard (3 to 314- 
ft. stems) form. Either, $6 each, $17.25 
for 3. 
Tomentosum. Spreading branches are 
covered with dazzling white flowers in 
wheel-like clusters. 2 to 3-ft. bushes, 
$1.50 each, $4.25 for 3, $16.50 per doz. 
Tomentosum plicatum. Oriental Snow- 
ball. Grows to 10 feet. Round balls of 
pure white in great profusion in May. 
2 to 3-ft. bushes, $1.75 each, $5 for 3, 
$19.25 per doz. 
WEIGELA. Popular flowering shrub covered 
in May and early June by large, trumpet- 
shaped flowers. Prune as soon as blooms 
are mostly over and from time to time 
shorten branches that grow over-long. 
This encourages a continuance of flowers 
all year. They do best in full sun. 
Eva Rathke. Blooms all summer. The 
flowers are ruby-carmine. 5 feet high 
when mature. 2 to 3-ft. plants, $1.40 
each, $4 for 3, $15.50 per doz. Half- 
standards, 3144 to 4-ft. stems, $2.50 
each, $7.25 for 3, $27.50 per doz. 
Bristol Ruby. Plant Patent 492. An 
attractive shrub with ruby-red blossoms 
on entire plant from June through July, 
and intermittently throughout the sea- 
son. Stx-foot fine-formed shrub at ma- 
turity. 2 to 3 ft., $1.75 each, $5 for 3, 
$19.25 per doz. 
TREE WISTERIA. This type does not 
climb but forms a dwarf weeping tree, 
with pendent branches bearing the 
familiar blue racemes of the beautiful 
Chinese Wisteria. Half-standards, 3 
to 314-ft. stems, 18-in. crowns, $15 each. 
WITCH HAZEL. Hamamelis virginiana. 
Grows to 15 feet. Small yellow flowers in 
Iate fall after the leaves have fallen. One 
of the few plants which bloom outside in 
winter. 3 to 4 ft., $1.50 each, $4.25 for 
3, $16.50 per doz. 


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: Japan Flowering Cherries. 

NEW YORK 8,N. Y. 
*Plants offered ‘‘B & B.” (Balled and Burlapped) have their 
roots surrounded by the original soil and wrapped in cloth 
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