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FLOWERING AND SHADE TREES 
Spring is unthinkable without the charm of 
our flowering trees: Cherry, Crab, Peach, 
Plum, Dogwood, Hawthorn, Lilac. How much 
more charming the next spring will be for 
you, if you have one of these trees bloom in 
your own yard and decorate your rooms with 
its beautiful flowering branches! 
MAGNOLIA SOULANGEANA 
Magnolia 
Soulangeana. One of the most beautiful of 
small growing trees, bearing great lily-like 
blooms in May before the leaves appear. 
Flower petals are creamy white tinted with 
purple. 2-3 feet. Each $5.50. 
Purpurea. Large flowers, purple outside, 
white within. Appearing before the leaves in 
early spring. Unusual and attractive. 2-3 
feet. Each $5.50. 
FRENCH LILAC 
Cherry—Flowering 
This shrubby tree is considered the world 
over as one of the finest of the flowering 
trees. Grows to a height of 15 feet, produc- 
Ing great masses of double deep pink flow- 
ers. Buds almost red. 
Kwanzan. 3 to 4 feet. Each $1.75. 
Flowering Crab 
(Malus) 
Bechtel’s Double Pink Flowering. The Flow- 
ering Crab is valued not only for its beautiful 
blossoms but for the handsome fruits, which 
in the fall are attractive to us. In the spring 
a well-grown plant is a mass of bloom. 3 to 
4-foot plants. Each $1.50. 
Hopa Crab. A beautiful upright growing 
tree with attractive foliage. Entirely covered 
with crimson buds followed by rose colored 
flowers in April. Fruit red inside and out, 
hanging on until late autumn. 4-5 foot 
plants. Each $1.50. 
Flowering Peach 
Double Red Flowering (Upright). One of the 
showiest flowering trees for early spring. 
4 to 5-foot plants. Each $1.50. 
Red Weeping (Double). This beautiful small 
tree has a spreading, pendulant habit which 
is superbly artistic and graceful. The blooms 
are fully double and a clean, sparkling red 
closely set on twisting and arching branches. 
3 to 4 feet. Each $1.75. 
Flowering Plum 
Blireiana—Double Flowering. A very hand- 
some tree with heavy branches and double 
pink flowers, resembling apple blossoms, 
and reddish green foliage. Blooms very early 
in the spring. 4-5 feet. Each $1.50. 
Dogwood (Cornus) 
Florida Rubra. Like the white flowering 
type but the flower bracts are a clear rosy- 
red. Very free flowering. Color is better 
when trees are established. 2 to 3 feet. Each 
$3.25. 
Pacific. Handsome, small tree covered with 
large, four-petaled white flowers in spring; 
beautiful, glossy foliage. 15 to 20 feet high 
when mature. 4 to 5 feet. Each $1.75. 
Hawthorn 
(Paul’s Double Scarlet) 
Double scarlet, form of the well-known Haw- 
thorn. Flowers profusely in May followed by 
bright red berries in fall. 2-year branched. 
Each $1.75. 
Lilac 
Budded Varieties (French Grafts) 
Adelaide Dunbar. Double, dark red. Each 
$2.00. 
Charles Joly. Double, dark reddish purple. 
Each $2.00. 
Edith Cavell. Double, milk white. Each $2.00. 
Norway Maple 
Crimson King. It is beautiful crimson 
through the summer months. Crimson King 
has been under observation in America for 
ten years and has kept its brilliant coloring 
all through the season, 4 to 5 ft. Each $3.25. 
Willow (Weeping) 
Babylon (S. babylonica). Becomes large, al- 
ways maintaining its graceful appearance. 
Its weeping branches make it very attractive. 
Each $2.00 
FLOWERING PEACH 
JAPANESE FLOWERING CHERRY (Kwanzan) 
