Uveusual lowering Shrubs and Small Ormamental Treas 
Look carefully around your garden. Do you find any common, overgrown shrubs or out-of-size bushes? These may be 
detracting from the beauty of your garden as a whole. Rather than assets, they quite likely are liabilities to other 
flowers growing nearby. Their long roots take valuable moisture and plant food from the soil, badly needed by other 
plants. Their branches may cast too much shade over other flowers, depriving them of essential sunlight and prevent- 
ing them from developing to the fullest extent of their beauty . . . Such shrubs and bushes that have grown too large 
for the space originally set aside for them should be removed as quickly as possible. Give your garden a “facial” by 
removing this overgrown and undesirable material, at the same time give yourself the pleasant sensation of having 
acquired an entirely new picture in your garden. 
Of definite superiority are Lemoine’s new Mockoranges and new Lilacs, as well as the new Weigelas and new 
Viburnums. 
Small trees of particular merit are the Flowering Crabs. Resembling but far surpassing Japanese Cherry Trees, they 
are noted for color, hardiness and beauty of bloom. Laburnum Vossi, a neat small tree with golden flowers, Paul’s 
Scarlet Thorn or the new Crimson Glory Thorn and Magnolias are but a few of the interesting things for the small 
garden. 
No finer or more carefully selected collection of Flowering Shrubs and Ornamental Trees is available anywhere. 
Make your selection TODAY as all are popular favorites. You will find that such “replacements” will complement the 
flowers in your garden, giving the latter an entirely new appearance. 
ALTHEA; HIBISCUS - Rose of Sharon 
Erect growing shrubs of stately and formal shape, particularly well suited 
for screens or specimens in the shrub border. They bloom from July to frost 
and give color when most other shrubs have finished blooming. We offer 
three beautiful varieties of recent introduction, practically unknown, and 
in our estimation the three best. Their ultimate height is about 10 feet. 
Celestial Blue Each $1.25; Three $3.50, Doz. $12.00 
A magnificent, distinct and truly blue Althea. The gorgeous single 
disk-like blue flowers are produced in large amounts. Planted with our 
white variety, Snowdrift, it makes a most handsome color effect in the 
summer border. Plants we send out will bloom this year. 
Snowdrift Each $1.25, Three $3.50, Doz. $12.00 
Giant single, disk-like, pure white flowers fully 4 inches across. The 
flowers open flat and are produced’ in great numbers from early July 
until frost. Tne plants we send out will bloom the first year. 
Rubis Each $1.25, Three $3.50, Doz. $12.00 
Very large, wide-open, deep rose-pink flowers with deeper center. The 
best and most brilliant of the pink shaded Althea. Infinitely better than 
the ordinary double varieties in common use. 
CALLICARPA - Violet Jewel Berry 
Purpurea 
Gracefully recurving branches, covered in August with thousands of 
closely set, small, pink tinted flowers. These are followed in late 
September by masses of violet-purple berries which last until mid- 
winter. There are few shrubs which give as much pleasure in the garden 
or which are so satisfactory for cutting. Ultimate height about five 
feet. We offer nice plants that will bear fruit at once. 
Althea Rubis 

Each $1.50, Three $4.00, Doz. $15.00 

Gar yopterts - Ftardy Blue Spirea 
Blue Mist Each $1.50, Three $4.00, Doz. $15.00 
(Mastacanthus X Mongolica.) This charming low growing shrub is a 
very real contribution to the meager list of summer and fall flowering 
shrubs. It is covered from August till autumn frost with numerous clus- 
ters of powdery blue, fringed flowers. This shrub grows about 18 to 24 
inches tall and is perfectly rounded, making a small mound about 2 feet 
in diameter. The foliage is lanceolate and slightly toothed and silvery 
green in color. A truly worth-while plant for the flower border as well 
as for in front of the shrubbery border. Perfectly hardy and replaces 
the tender Mastacanthus now in use. 
CERCIS 
Chinensis Each $3.00, Three $8.50, Doz. $32.00 
This charming, brilliant spring-flowering shrub is a Chinese counterpart 
of the American Native Redbud. It flowers at the same time, but the 
quantity and quality of its flowers far surpass those of our common wild 
form. It is shrublike in growth, and when in blcom, every branch and 
twig is covered with thousands of bright purple blossoms almost double 
the size of the common variety and noticeably darker. You will want 
this in your garden surely. Ultimate height from 6 to 8 feet. 
CHIONANTHUS 
Virginica Each $1.50, Three $4.00, Doz. $15.00 
One of the most striking of native small trees. Its handsome, oblong 
leaves turn a bright golden yellow in autumn. In June large masses of 
loose panicles of feathery petaled, snow-white flowers make it an out- 
standing garden plant. 
CORYLUS 
Maxima atropurpurea (Purple-Leaved Filbert) 
Each $3.00, Three $8.00, Doz. $32.00 
For a rich display of bronze foliage there is not much better than the 
Purple Leaved Filbert. It is a much branched shrub covered from top 
to bottom with fine, bronze leaves which make a pleasant break in the 
monotony of the green leaves in the shrubbery border. The richest and 
deepest colors are obtained when it is grown in full sun. It grows weil 
in shade but it then loses part of its coloring. Maximum height about 
10 feet. Can be kept any height up to 5 feet with pruning. Hardy 
anywhere! A fine plant for the lawn as a single specimen. 
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THE QUEEN OF SHRUBS 
_ All the species of Cotoneaster will thrive either in shade or full sun, and 
are very suitable for growing under trees, ‘’clothing’’ north or other walls, 
and for covering wet, dry, or shady banks, etc. 
The outstanding characteristics of this genus are the beautiful, conspicu- 
ous clusters of berries, ranging in color from brilliant orange-scarlet, through 
varying shades of red to black, all preceded by the profusion of white or 
pinky white flowers wreathing the branchlets, and also in many species the 
rich autumnal coloring of their foliage. For hedges they are becoming more 
and more popular, Multiflora being especially well adapted for that purpose. 
The under-mentioned list contains most of the best recent introductions 
from China, to which country they are native. 
Apiculata (Cranberry Cotoneaster) 
Each $2.50, Three $7.00, Doz. $25.00 
A beautiful hardy dwarf Cotoneaster from Western China. This little 
known variety grows about four feet high with arching branches 
weighted down during autumn with masses of bright crimson sub-globose 
fruits. The foliage is shiny green and beautiful through the year. Per- 
fectly hardy. 
Divaricata Each $1.25, Three $3.50, Doz. $12.00 
From Central and Western China. 5 to 6 feet high, of graceful spread- 
ing habit; small green polished leaves and red egg-shaped fruits; few 
shrubs can equal its glorious scarlet autumn tints. 
Floribunda Each $1.25, Three $3.50, Doz. $12.00 
Grows into a beautifully shaped round bush. Branches slightly arching 
and heavily covered with handsome blue-green foliage. It flowers as 
freely as the English Hawthorn and in fall is covered with thousands 
of small brilliant red berries. 
Multiflora (Reflexa) Each $1.25, Three $3.50, Doz. $12.00 
From Western China. Thin-branching shrub, 5 to 8 feet high, of elegant 
habit. As beautiful in bloom as the Hawthorn of the hedgerow. The 
round, bright red fruits ripen in late summer. 
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