UNUSUAL PLANTS 7 
BEAUTY BUSH 
(Kolkwitzia amabilis) 
Outstanding ornamental, flowering very heavily for 
an extended period late May and into June. Bees visit 
the flowers freely. Is tops in ornamental shrub for 
yard or high hedge. Grows to nine feet tall. 
Beauty Bush is well named 
Good 18 to 24 inch plants, each $1.50; 3 for $4.00; 
post paid. 
PLANTING TREES AND SHRUBS: Dig the hole large enough so 
the roots will spread out naturally without bending. Set the plant only 
114 inches deeper than it stood in the nursery. (You can tell the ground 
line as that is where the green top joins the brown root). Fill in around 
the roots with Joose dirt shaking the roots while doing so the hole will 
all be filled and not leave any air pockets around the roots. When 
the roots are well covered, then tamp the dirt firmly using your foot. 
If the ground is dry, then use a lot of water in the hole both before 
and after setting the plant. Even if the soil is moist, some water should 
be used after tamping in to further settle the soil around the roots. 
Plant as soon as you can after arrival of the stock. If this cannot be 
at once, keep in a cool place and keep the packing moist around the 
roots; or heel in the ground with the roots well covered with several 
inches of moist soil. 
DISTANCE FOR PLANTING: For close windbreak or screen, space 
Vitex plants six feet apart in the row; Everflowering Locust 6 to 8 
feet; Caragana three to four feet apart; Lespedeza Bicolor 214 feet. The 
above are suggested spacing in the rows when a close windbreak, screen 
or hedge is desired. If you wish the individual plants to develop fully, 
then a much wider spacing should be allowed. 
LESPEDEZA BICOLOR and PEA TREE SEEDS~—plant the seed 
in garden row during spring; transplant the young plants to permanent 
position early the following spring while they are yet dormant. L. Bicolor 
seed, plant in spring after severe frosts are past and when moisture con- 
ditions are good. 
