Srilog: 
DECIDUOUS FLOWERING TREES 
Ideal for Shade and Beautiful Spring Color 
This very popular group of plants consists of smaller sized trees, prized mostly for their 
excellent seasonal flowers. Some, in addition, have fruit. They are often used close to buildings 
for localized shade. 
SILK TREE 
Albizzia Julibrissin (Silk-Tree Albizzia). 
Also listed as a shade tree, it is a choice 
rapid-growing, medium-sized tree with a 
spreading umbrella shape, delicate feath- 
ery foliage, and showy pink balls for flow- 
ers all summer. Bare Root 6-8’ $2.50 up; 
5 Gal. $3.00 up. 
RED BUD 
Cercis Canadensis (Red Bud or Judas Tree). 
Ornamental deciduous shrub or small tree 
covered in spring with a profusion of rosy 
flowers. Does well in most any situation 
but prefers a dry summer. Gal. $1.50, 5 
Gal. $4.00 up. 
DOGWOOD 
Cornus Florida (White Dogwood). Small 
tree, most effective in shaded locations for 
the attractive white flowers. Petals, like the 
Poinsettia, are bracts encircling the tiny 
flowers in the center. Early spring. B&B 
$4.00 up; 5 Gal. $4.00 up. 
Cornus Florida Rubra (Pink Dogwood). The 
most spectacular with light red or pink 
flowers. Use peat or leaf mold in the soil 
to insure an acid reaction. Partial shade. 
Grafted. 5 Gal. $6.50. 
HAWTHORN 
All Hawthorns: 5 Gal. $4.00 
Crataegus. Small, narrow growing, upright 
trees that can be safely planted within six 
feet of buildings. Excellent rose-like flow- 
ers in spring. 
Crataegus Cordata (Phoenopyrum) (Wash- 
ington Thorn). White flowers, grows up to 
20 feet high. Clusters of small red ber- 
ries in fall. 
Crataegus Oxyacantha Pauli (Paul’s Scarlet). 
Masses of double carmine-red flowers in 
spring. Red berries in fall. 
Crataegus Oxyacanhta Rosea 
Hawthorne). Variety with 
pink flowers. 
(Double Pink 
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FLOWERING DOGWOOD 
MAGNOLIA SOULANGEANA 
THORNLESS HONEY LOCUST 
Gleditsia Triacanthos Inermis (Thornless 
Honey Locust). Large tree with compound 
leaves and pea like flowers. Unlike most 
Locusts this variety has no thorns. Bare 
Root 6-8’ $2.50 (other sizes); 5-Gal. 
$3.50 up. 
ROSE OF SHARON 
Hibiscus Syriacus Althea (Rose of Sharon). 
Very hardy shrub or small tree with dark 
green foliage and beautiful mallow-like 
flowers in good showy quantities. Summer 
and autumn. Available in lavender, single 
and double; mauve; pink, double, and all 
Whites Galarbile2> som Galas 53255 —BGB 
$3.50 up. 
GOLDEN-CHAIN TREE 
Laburnum Vossi. An exceptional showy tree 
when in bloom in April and May. Long 
racemes of golden-yellow, pea-shaped 
blooms are suspended from branches cov- 
ered with clover-like foliage. 5 Gal. $4.00 
up. 
CRAPE MYRTLE 
Lagerstroemia Indica (Crape Myrtle). Large 
shrubs or small trees, with showy masses 
of lovely crepe-like flowers in summer. 
They withstand heat very well. Full sun. & 
Gal. $1.25, 5 Gal. $3.75 up; B&B $3.50 #m 
up. 
Purpurea. Lavender flowers on tall form. 
Rosea (Pink Crape Myrtle). Large speci- 
men shrub or small tree; hardy, decidu- 
ous. Becomes a mass of crepe-texture, 
rose pink flowers in summer. 
Rubra (Red Crape Myrtle). Vigorous, up- 
right growth. Hardy and _ deciduous. 
Rose-red flowers. 
Watermelon Red. Never surpassed for 
summer and fall color. Vigorous shrub 
that becomes a mass of crinkly, bright B 
red flower clusters. Can be grown as a 
small tree or shrub. Deciduous. 
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White. Large, snow white flowers, unusu- 
ally ruffled and set in dense panicles 
along the branches. Very showy. Decid- 
uous. 
CHINESE MAGNOLIAS 
Magnolia Soulangeana. The large lily-like 
flowers of Chinese Magnolias are becom- 
ing more esteemed each year. They bloom 
at the end of the winter before the leaves. 
Outstanding flowers, beautiful rose-purple. 
Give plenty of water and a good soil. See 
page 17 for other deciduous magnolias 
that can be trained as small trees. Gal. 
$3.50, 5 Gal. $7.50. 
FLOWERING CRABAPPLE 
Small narrow trees with upright growth. 
Bare Root 4-5’ $2.25, other sizes available; 
5-Gal. $3.50 up. 
Eleyi (Eleyi Flowering Crabapple). 
Single purple-red Blossoms, leaves reddish 
when young. Fruit dark wine-purple. 
(Hopa Flowering Crabapple). 
Red buds, flowers and fruit. 
Malus loensis Plena (Bechtel Crab). Small 
tree to 15 feet. Crowded in spring with 
large, fragrant, double pale pink flowers. 
The bright green leaves which follow are 
neat all year. 3-4’ $2.50. 
Scheideckeri (Scheidecker Crab). 
Double pink flowers with yellow fruit. 
Malus Floribunda. Tall, slender tree with 
graceful branches. Flowers large, single, 
typical apple blossom pink. 
FLOWERING APRICOTS 
Prunus Armeniaca (Flowering Apricot). 
These small flowering trees are prized, as 
they are noted for blooming the earliest of 
all fruit trees in the spring. Bare Root 4-5’ 
$2.25, other sizes available; 5 Gal. $3.50 
up. 
Dawn. Very early variety with fragrant double 
pink flowers. 
Peggy Clark. Double deep rose-pink flowers, 
intensely fragrant. 
Rosemary Clark. A variety with large, very 
fragrant, double white flowers. 
JAPANESE FLOWERING CHERRY 
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