“NEMAPEG’S”’ 
Onuamental and Blowering Trees 





PLANT THEM ON YOUR LAWN 
You make no investment equal to 
that of planting guaranteed “Nema- 
peg’s’ nursery stock. No other outlay 
of money will bring as great returns, 
because each year the value of your 
home will be increased. 
Plant Now! 
The Mountain Ash, 
Sorbus Aucuparia 
See page 16. 


You should plant 
a Liee of 
The Rare Franklinia 
(Franklinia Altamaha—Gordonia Altamaha) 
ONE OF OUR BEST SELLERS 
This exquisite fall flowering tree was brought in 1777 from the banks of the 
Altamaha River in Georgia to Bartram’s garden at Philadelphia. John Bartram, 
recognizing its extraordinary beauty and value, named it in honor of his life-long 
friend, Benjamin Franklin. 
The original grove of Franklinia trees was again visited in 1790, but from that day 
to this no one has seen these trees growing in the wild though many expeditions 
have searched the banks of the Altamaha for it. 
Franklin’s tree is beautiful in detail and marvelous in landscape effect besides 
blooming at a season when few shrubs or trees are in flower. 
The slender trunk and graceful branches are so muscular and sinewy in appearance 
that one almost expects motion as under a greyhound’s skin. The bark is smooth 
and dark gray, with wavering lengthwise markings of lighter color. 
Each twig develops at its tip a cluster of buds of graduated size, like overgrown 
greenish pearls. Early in August the largest of these attain the size of marbles. Then 
the guard petal folds back, still retaining its firm spherical form. From its shelter 
emerge four other petals, satiny, snowy white, elaborately frilled and pleated. The 
Ornamental Tree 
Collection 

snowy, frilly chalice, three inches in diameter, holds a sumptuous mass of orange-gold 1 Rare Franklinia, 2 to 3 ft. 
stamens and breathes forth a delicate, balmy fragrance. 1 Bechtel’s Double Flowering Crab, 3 to 4 ft. 
Each flower lasts two or three days and then drops cleanly. There is a constant 
succession of bloom till hard frost. We frequently get the unusual effect of a tree 1 Purple Leaf Plum, 3 to 4 ft. 
clad in crimson autumn foliage and abundantly starred with white flowers. 1 Red Flowering Dogwood, 2 to 3 ft. 
The Franklinia begins blooming when not more than three or four feet high. 1 White Flowering Dogwood, 3 to 4 ft. 
Young trees under favorable conditions increase in height a foot or more each season. . ‘ ; 
Specimens thirty feet high are known. It develops naturally with several trunks, but 1 White American Birch, 3 to 4 ft. 
may easily be trained to a single trunk by removing the sprouts which start from 1 Magnolia Glauca, 114 to 2 ft. 
the base. 
Franklinia prefers full sun and has proven entirely hardy about New York and : 
hardy in favorable locations about Boston. It is an especially desirable tree for the 7 i Reaul yf 
71500 
small intimate garden, loved and lived in. It is a charming lawn tree and the grass 
may be allowed to grow closely about the trunk. It also thrives when planted by Tnees for only 
pools, lakes and streams. Its light elegance of form and color contrasts exquisitely 
with the darker green of conifers. 
Trees 2 Feet High, $2.75 Each; 2 to 3 Feet, $3.50 Each 

All Trees Shipped Express, 
Be Sure to Include This Tree In Your Order Charges Collect 

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