18PINUS, cont. from preceding page. 
Strobus, WHITE PINE. Delicate 
bluish-green needles. Larger. 
sylvestris, SCOTS PINE. Dark- 
green twisted needles. 
Thunbergii, JAPANESE BLACK PINE. 
Dark-green, used for training. 
Platanus occidentalis, SYCAMORE, 
Hardy, deciduous, American tree. 
Large-growing, great white blotcheg 
on the bark, a fine climate control 
tree, interlaced side branches. 
PLUM, FLOWERING: Prunus cerasifera 
PLUM, FRUITING: Fruit Section 
PLUM-YEW: Cephalotaxus 
Podocarpus macrophylla. Yew-like 
coniferous evergreen shrub. Long 
and broad shiny dark-green needles 
Young growth cream-colored. 
POMEGRANATE: Punica 
Populus nigra italica, LOMBARDY POP- 
LAR. Rapid-growing, tall, columnar 
deciduous tree. 
PRIVET: Ligustrum 
PRUNUS 
1. Laurels 
Prunus, EVERGREEN LAUREL SPECIES. 
Laurocerasus, ENGLISH LAUREL. 
Large oval, shiny, bright-green 
leaves. A favorite hedge plant. 
L. Zabeliana. CHERRY-LEAF LAUREL. 
Long, narrow, dark-green leaves. 
lusitanica. PORTUGAL-LAUREL. Dark 
green, shiny leaves, young bran- 
ches red. Specimen or hedge. 
2. Flowering Trees and Shrubs 
Prunus, FLOWERING TREES AND SHRUBS. 
cerasifera, FLOWERING PLUMS. Small 
trees. 
BLERIANA: Copper-red foliage, 
double pink flowers. 
VESUVIUS: Purple foliage, single 
white flowers. 
glandulosa sinensis, DOUBLE PINK 
FLOWERING ALMOND. Small bush, 
covered with dbl pink fls,spring. 
Padus, HAAG, BIRD CHERRY. White 
single flowers in large drooping 
lilac-like clusters. Uncommon. 
Persica var. DOUBLE RED WEEPING 
FLOWERING PEACH. Small tree with 
pendulous side branches, fls. 
double red. 
Prunus, cont. 
serrulata, FLOWERING CHERRIES. 
KWANZAN: upright grower, large 
bright pink flowers, double. 
MI. FUJI; arching side branches, 
large double white flowers. 
NADEN: Spreading habit with large 
double light-pink flowers. 
SHIRO-FUGEN: Spreading habit, 
semi-double pink flowers. 
SHOGETSU: Spreading habit with 
large light-pink double flowers 
Pterostyrax hispida, EPAULETTE-TREE 
Deciduous tree with fragrant white 
flowers in drooping’ panicles. 
Punica Granatum, POMEGRANATE, Orange- 
red flowers in the fall. 
PURPLE FRINGE: Cotinus 
Pyracantha coccinea, FIRETHORN. 
Broadleaved evergreen, thorny shrub 
Valued for their brilliant red 9 
berries in the fall. May be grown 
vine-like or as a broad free-stand- 
ing shrub. 
GOVERNMENT RED: New improved form 
LALANDII: Scarlet berries. 
OAKS 
Quercus, OAK. Deciduous or evergreen 
hard-wooded trees. Valued for 
grace and brilliant fall color. 
alba, WHITE OAK. Deciduous, with 
a distinctive and majestic beauty 
Rich red fall color. 
borealis, RED OAK. Deciduous, 
straight limbs and smooth bark. 
coccinea, SCARLET OAK. Deciduous, 
brilliant and shining autumn 
foliage. 
nigra, WATER OAK. Semi-evergreen 
with bluish-green foliage. 
palustris, PIN OAK. Deciduous, 
bright green lvs, upright twiggy 
growth. 
Phellos, WILLOW OAK. Deciduous with 
long, shiny, light-green, willow- 
like leaves. 
Suber, CORK OAK. Evergreen, with 
small holly-like leaves. From 
whence comes the cork of commerce 
From Portugal. Rare, unusual. 
QUINCE, FLOWERING: Chaenomeles 
Raphiolepis indica. Smaller broad- 
leaved evergreen with round, 
leathery, dark-green leaves. Pink- 
ish flowers in pyramidal clusters. 
