Leroi 
Gay aad. 
Bear in mind that good landscape composition is 
achieved by massing several plants of a single variety 
in a group, border, background or screen. Shrubs are 
usually spaced 3 or 4 feet apart although for straight 
line hedging or screening a spacing of 18 inches or 2 
feet is better. 
Here are excellent flowering shrubs that combine a 
maximum of color, fragrance and landscape effect with 
complete reliability and hardiness. Most all of these 
shrubs are growing right here on our own grounds so 
that you are assured of field-fresh stock. 
“RED BIRD" 
Remember your delight as a. child in first 
viewing a Flowering Quince ablaze with bloom 
from inside out? | can still remember doing a 
Lage ict to see if the plant was actually 
atire. 
Plant breeders have improved the plant since 
then and our scarlet flowered form, "Red 
Bird,"' brings you a bushel of breath-takiga 
crimson-scarlet bloom amid varnished, dark 
green. tctlage: 
specially suited for hedging or border, or 
to intersperse with evergreens in the home 
foundation planting. 
Fleld-grown 18 to 24 in. 
Each Each per 3 or more 
1.25 1.10 
(Viburnum trilobum) 
Better than the older European Cranberry 
Bush. A beautiful shrub adorned with great 
clusters of ruby-red berries that appear in 
late summer and remain through the winfer. 
Huge white flower clusters, 4 inches across, 
in early spring. If we could offer you but one 
rub for your border, or for screening, or 
background, we would be fempted to make 
(Syringa rothamagensis) (Lonicerra. fra Ot 
grantissima) 
We have: tried and examined about Rar . 
2 e shrub whose creamy flowe i 
every variety of Lilac, and for sheer fill your spring garden Y ith delicate 
lovely aaah nace of cece and bewitching fragrance. Masses of 
size,, good foliage and reliability in A 
roducing: abundance of ciear lilac phy dealite Saepenr: in ltd eeeeees 
lowers, we rate this variety tops. A treat for song birds. Plant in sun or 
(Weigela vaniceki) 
Response last spring to this new shrub -~A new, 
was tremendous. Unquestionably it is 
the finest of the many Weigelas fhai 
we have tested. Heavily covered with 
hundreds of scarlet-red blossoms in 
mid-May, and some scattered blooms 
(Elaeagnus umbellata) 
refreshingly different shrub. 
One your neighbor won't have in his 
garden. 
Foliage is a delightful, sparkling silver. 
Silver berries in the fall which turn 
to cherry-red. Yellow, fragrant flowers 
foot Aca he pte de Hubtid “Line partial shade as its lustrous foliage are in evidence throughout the summer. in mid-May. : ice cera beast Bosh lt isscivaledeey 
Ei isi lavineighborhood delight each blue-green below and deep emeral Extremely hardy and not: ‘'fussy"’ about Use as a background or screening dozen plants can make your garden outstand- 
above, persists well into winter. Dense soil. Plant in sun or shade. This 
semi-evergreen character and moderate Keeling Cardinal belongs in your 
6 to 8 ft. height make it indispensable garden or shrub border. 
shrub and plant in full sun for best 
effect of beautiful silver foliage. 
Field-grown, 18-24 inches 
ing in the neighborhood. 
Field-grown 18-24 in. 
year. Most Lilacs, you know, take years 
and i years to bloom, but this hybrid 
blooms: first year and abundantly its 
second tyear. for background. Fleld-grown, 18-24 in. ace Ecce per'd oruere Each Each per 3 or more 
Field-grown, 18 to 24 in. : cite ha Each Each per 3ormore = 1.25 : 95¢ 
Each *. Eachper3ormore — See Each "SOc or more 1.55 < 
1.00 95¢ £ 
Far and away the most fragrant of the Mock 
Oranges. Plants are simply laden with snowy 
single and double flowers in May and June 
and perfume the entire yard. A single branch 
will perfume a room. A confined, neat shrub 
much superior to the more coarse older 
varieties. Completely hardy and easy to grow. 
Happy in full sun or port shade. 
18-24 in. 
Each a. per 3 or more 
1.00 
ie 
(Kolkwitzia) 
Truly a plant which lives up to its 
name, Beauty Bush is considered the 
showiest of the hundreds of introduc- 
tions by E. H. Wilson of the famed 
Achold Arboretum. A profusion of bell- 
shaped, shell-pink flowers appears in 
June, weighing down the arching, grace- 
ful branches with abundance of bloom. 
Requires no special attention of any 
kind. Our plants this year are unusually 
good. 
Field-grown 18-24 in. 
Each Each per 3 or more 
1.25 1.10 
(Euonymus alata compacta) 
Small shrubs are especially desired for 
the modern home planting. And here is 
a gem. Use it to provide a splash of 
brilliant color at doorways, under low 
windows or elsewhere a shrub of con- 
fined growth is needed. If you want to 
create a breathtaking hedge, this plant 
will do it—and you will have to-clip 
only every other year! 
Fall foliage is a coppery crimson— 
fruly a blaze of color. Winged bark 
and scarlet berries make the shrub 
‘charming all through the winter. Com- 
pletely hardy. Thrives in sun or partial 
shade. 
Field-grown 12 to 18 in. 
Each 
(Frobelli) 
Frobelli is an improvement over the 
older red spirea that has been the 
most popular low-growing shrub in 
America. A trim, dainty compact bush 
2 to 3 feet in height. A mass of red 
bloom in spring and intermittent flow- 
ers throughout summer. Extremely hardy, 
and grows in sun or part shade. For 
foundation planting, corners or as a 
facer for taller shrubs, it has few rivals. 
It also is used as a low no-trimming 
hedge. 
15-18 In. 
Each Ea. per 3 or more 
75¢ 60c 
Aristocrats of the Lilac family. Our 
plants are unusually good this year, 
and they are so completely hardy and 
vigorous. Everyone loves and admires 
the heavy double bloom, the intense 
fragrance, variety and mass of color 
provided by this garden queen. Price 
has restricted extensive planting of 
French Lilacs, but this spring we fixed 
a price that will enable the most 
modest garden budget to include sev- 
eral plants. These will go in a hurry, 
so please don't include in your order 
unless you order early and permit us 
some leeway in substituting colors. 
CHARLES JOLY. Double, near red in 
color, Very fragrant. 
ALPHONSE LAVALLEE. Double, true lilac 
color. Fragrant. 
PRES. GREVY. Deep ourple-lilac colored. 
“WATERMELON RED" 
"William Toovey’ 
New! and finest of all Crape Myrtles. Crape 
Myrtle is the glamour shrub of the South. 
Now we find this variety will thrive and bloom 
first year, clear up to the lowa line. 
Large, crinkly showy flowers of this variety 
extremely profuse from mid-summer fill frost. 
Tops often freeze to ground, but surge up 
1.95 2 for 3.75 
FLOWERING 
TREES 
Yourwill agree this selection encompasses just about the loveliest 
and imost desirable of our flowering trees. Each is a “natural” to 
embellish! and: accentuate evergreen plantings. All are restricted 
ins growth «which makes them particularly appealing with long, low 
lines of modern architecture. Every one is quite hardy from lowa 
to Nova: Scotia, excepting the Magnolias. The Magnolias are re- 
liably hardy from southeast lowa to Buffalo to Boston, and a little 
north. 
Double. Sweet fragrance. 
MME. LEMOINE. Double, white. Fragrant. 
Prices: 18-24 in. plants, 2 yr. 
with vigor next spring to provide a wealth 
of bloom during garden "summer slump." 
Fleld-qrown 1.40 ea. Strong 18 Inch plants. 
éiverLmorel = 1.25 ea. Each Each per 3 or mpre 
WZormore 22. 1.10 ea. 
1.40 1.20 
\( HOPA CRAB 
Finest of the Flowering Crabs—masses of 
rose-colored blossoms in. May followed 
by large, crimson Crabs, (crimson all the 
way rough), that are not only highly 
decorative but are excellent for preserve 
making. Hopa-is free of pests and blights 
that affect so many Crabs and is a qood 
strong grower. 
When this tree breaks into bloom you 
wouldn't part with it for anything. A most 
delightful, reliable flowering tree for your 
MIMOSA or SILK TREE 
This sensational Southern belle isn't sup- 
posed to be hardy so far north, but we have 
mature trees in Elsberry that have been 
putting on a wonderful floral display each 
summer for I5 years. A hard winter (it 
once hit -26°) will kill back new shoots but 
doesn't seem to slow the long summer dis- 
play of unbelievable rosy, silky flowers. The 
free is small in the north—about 20 feet— 
< 
\) THUNDERCLOUD 
Finest of the Purple-leaf Flowering Plums. 
The tree reaches only 12 to IS feet at 
maturity but botd outline and flaming 
loved of all Magnolias. Huge pinkish foliage give a color glow to the home- 
orchid blooms, large as saucers, appear grounds no other tree can duplicate. In 
before the foliage and completely cover the spring, before the foliage appears, 
the tree. Broad, rich green leaves lend bright red buds open into pink blushed 
SAUCER MAGNOLIA 
This eye-catcher is best known and best 
and groups well. Grey-green ph ese grounds. a tropical appearance through the sum- blooms with deep red throat. Blooms are 
fing,» airy leaves: lend a Lhasa ‘i “tw Field-qrown, 3 to 4 ft., well-branched mer. Our plants are cutting-grown, and followed by small red plums that are 
grows amazingly and blooms when only two Each Each per 3 Each per 6 bloom when very young. Plants 3 or 4 good to eat. A most colorful and beautiful 
or three asc ; sic tfaae 1.95 1.85 1.75 feet tall often have several flowers. lawn tree. 
We have on ents - : : ‘ 18 te 24 in., well-branched, moss-balled Field-grown, 2 to 3 feet. “ 
utifull ertaln' iced Crab, i 6 “ : ' 
vient. nese Soh eben Rent hs ee. "tht fe soravous “thing~doepeat Each Each per 3 or more Each Each per 3 
: 1 ») . somi-double, 
98c each per tree 6 trees for 4.98 Pasiishcrsd titiecolenan avait), 3.90 3.70 1.55 1.40 
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