The’ <S Grapevine 
VOL. 2 JANUARY, 
LET’S RESOLVE! 
At this time of the year many people 
make resolutions—some of which are kept! 
Here is a resolution you can make with 
regard to your garden, and which, if kept, 
will pay otf in pleasure all through 1952, 
and for years to come. 
There must have been times when you 
have thrilled at encountering some new 
and interesting plant. It is an experience 
common to plant lovers the world over. 
Whether you have struggled uncomfort- 
ably through steamy jungle, climbed dan- 
gerous heights to attain this thrill or 
whether you find it at Evans & Reeves, 
the thrill is still there. So, LET'S RESOLVE 
to challenge that slogan ''It's Different'’ 
and see what Evans & Reeves have to offer 
for the new year; for you can be among 
the first to possess plants never before 
offered for sale in the trade. New and 
strange plants. Plants that will be conver- 
sation pieces when growing in your garden. 
Plants that will put you in a special class 
in your garden circle. 
Interested? Then ask us about Dais cotini- 
folia, a beautiful little South African tree, 
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Rosy Future 
Down through the years from widely 
separated countries, each country contrib- 
uting its particular species and hybrids, 
come to us the present-day roses. 
Lauded in song and verse, employed as 
an emblem for many a cause, mostly good 
ones—and always highly prized by lovers 
of flowers, it surely has stood the test of 
time a a popular flower. 
The bareroot planting season is here, so 
a few timely tips. Buy top grade stock— 
low priced, weakly plants are poor econ- 
omy. The weaklings had their chance in 
the growing field alongside the top grade 
plants, under the same conditions, same 
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tablished for one year in five galld 
now available, include two Cherries—Prun- 
us campanulata (pink to red) and Prunus 
subhirtella, light pink, both upright but 
weeping; one Apricot, Prunus mume var. 
Rosemary Clark, double light pink, earliest 
of all; one Crab, Malus ioensis var. Bech- 
teli, late very double light pink; and sev- 
eral forms of purple-leaf Myrobalan Plum. 
(From $4.) 
All these BRONZE-FOLIAGE PLUMS 
are hybrids of Prunus cerasifera var. atro- 
purpurea, and ones we particularly recom- 
mend are Thundercloud (the blackest stems), 
Bliriana (the showiest double pink flowers), 
Vesuvius (the most round-headed tree}, 
Pissardi (purple leaves and single pinky- 
white flowers), and Hollywood Plum (pur- 
ple leaves and edible fruit). Now we add 
one equally ornamental purple-leaf shrub 
to five feet, Prunus cistena. Dark coppery 
foliage, and in winter the smooth black 
boles and beautifully patterned limbs, are 
welcome color contrasts to any garden, 
and none of them grows very large. 
The most adaptable deciduous FLOW- 
ERING SHRUB, we think, is the ornamental 
Quince, Chaenomeles japonica. This we 
offer you this season in white, pale pink, 
red and salmon. The shrub is low-growing, 
curiously branched, seldom completely de- 
ciduous, blooms intermittently from Octo- 
ber to May, and is priceless for flower 
arrangements. ($4.) 
Special attention is called to another 
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