Fublegs 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; 
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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; BGB $5.00. 
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. BGB 
$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. 
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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). 
pink flowers. 
(Double Pink 
Variety with light double 
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. 
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MORAINE LOCUST 
Gleditsia Triacanthos Inermis Moraine. New 
strain of Locust, much improved, without 
thorns or seed pods. Fast growing, very 
hardy, for difficult soil conditions. Lacy, 
open growth habit, 40 to 60 feet tall and 
with equal spread. Good yellow fall color- 
ing. Pat. No. 836. 5 Gal. $6.00. 
Bechtel’s Double Flowering Crab 
FLOWERING CRABAPPLE 
Small narrow trees with upright growth. 
Bare Root 4-5’ $2.25, other sizes available; 
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Eleyi (Eleyi Flowering Crabapple) . 
Single purple-red Blossoms, leaves reddish 
when young. Fruit dark wine-purple. 
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Prunus Persica (Flowering Peach) 
BEAUTIFUL SPRING COLOR AND LASTING SHADE 
Malus loensis Plena 
‘Malus 
\\ Malus Floribunda. Tall, 
Red buds, flowers and fruit. 
(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. 
slender tree with 
graceful branches. Flowers large, single, 
typical apple blossom pink. 
FLOWERING APRICOTS 
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. 
Prunus 
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. 
Flowering Plum 
FLOWERING PLUMS 
Prunus Cerasifera (Flowering Plums). Very 
popular small, upright flowering trees with 
purple-red leaves and excellent flowers. 
Can be used close to buildings for localized 
light shade. Bare Root 5-6’ $2.00, other 
sizes available; 5 Gal. $3.50 up. 
Prunus Blireiana. Brilliant red foliage later 
turning greenish. Dainty soft flowers line 
the long slender stems in spring. Hardly 
any fruit. 
Prunus Hollywood. This variety has excellent 
blood-red fruit, white flowers in profusion 
and leaves green above, red beneath. 
‘ Prunus Pissardi. Small tree, dzep purple leaves 
and small white flowers in spring. Deep red 
branches and twigs are interesting even 
in winter. 
\Prunus Thundercloud. Really lives up to its 
name. Masses of early white flowers fol- 
lowed by bronzy-purple foliage holding 
color throughout the summer. 
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