8 ORNAMENTAL FLOWERING SHRUBS 
ELDERS 
(Sambucus)—Berried shrubs grown chiefly for their beautiful fo- 
liage and large-clustered fruits, the source of “Elderberry Pie’. Large, 
flat-topped cymes of white flowers in early July usually followed by 
reddish-black fruits. Used extensively for screen planting and to at- 
tract the birds. 
GOLDEN ELDER (aurea)—Medium Tall. A brilliant color plant for 
landscape work, with yellow foliage intensified by full sun exposure. 
Occasional trimming will produce a low bushy plant for medium- 
size shrub requirements. 
CUT-LEAVED ELDER  (acuti- 
loba)—Medium tall. Deeply cut, 
fern-like foliage, making a lacy 
bank effect in the border. One of 
the most showy of the rear border 
or solid group plants grown. Suck- 
ers up similar to Common Lilac so 
that a clumpy effect is produced, 
but has tendency to face itself to 
the ground with foliage, making it 
A highly desirable for its purpose in 
Golden Elder the landscape. 
FORSYTHIA 
GOLDEN BELL—tThese splendid old shrubs, growing 8 to Io feet 
tall eventually, light up the garden with glinting masses of yellow 
very early in spring before the leaves appear. The upright forms 
make excellent tall hedges, and are bright-hued fillers for massed 
shrub groups; the matted branches of yellowish green quite at- 
tractive in winter. 
g ~~ cuegesy FORTUNEI (Erect)— 
a Si i PSS Derived from Suspen- 
sa, but exactly op- 
posite in type of 
growth. Fortunei 
grows the tallest and 
most slender of the 
group, and is conse- 
quently selected for 
tall backgrounds. 
INTERMEDIA (Arching)—Short leaved, earliest bloom- 
ing broadest bushing; the long canes drooping so as 
to make a solid bank of brilliant green foliage. The 
best general purpose type. 
SPECTABILIS—Of Intermedia character, with very 
broad, heavier flowers. 
SUSPENSA (Weeping)—Slender, 
limply drooping branches strung 
with bright rosettes of yellow 
bloom and shiny leaves. These 
are airily grace- 
ight p swaying 
loose from trel- 
lis top or garden wall; or mingle pleasingly with the trailing 
growth of Honeysuckle, Wichuraiana roses and other ground 
covering vines. 
FLOWERING CRABS 
FLOWERING CRAB (Bechtel’s Double)—A wonderful low, 
bushy tree, the most beautiful of all flowering Crabs. It isa 
rose in disguise, and as sweet as the breath of Spring. At a 
distance the tree seems covered with dainty roses of delicate 
pink color. Blooms quite young. Admirers of Tree Roses 
should plant this instead and be highly pleased with the result. 
HYPERICUM, ST. JOHN’S WORT 
Shrubs and herbs, with mostly yellow flowers. The form is 
compact and rounded, with somewhat persistent leaves. 
H. MOSERIANUM—A novelty of decided merit on account 
of its large, glistening golden yellow flowers, produced free- 
ly from mid-summer until hard frost. It is quite dwarf in 
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