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Much of the pleasure and pride in gardening would be lost without novelties and new varieties. 
After the hybridizer has developed these new flowers in his “laboratory”, it usually remains to be 
seen whether they can be grown successfully by average gardeners under average conditions. Here 
at Wayside, we test hundreds of new items every year. We give them all rigid field tests. Frankly, 
most of the new things show no particular merit. The few that prove good and are genuine additions, 
we pass on with our recommendations. These are but a few of the really fine new plants of recent 
years that we are sure will add greater beauty and interest to your garden. 
Outstanding New Shrubs 
New CYTISUS, Battandieri (page 145). Unusual shrub from N. 
Africa. Handsome foliage, brilliant golden yellow, Lupine-like 
flowers. Blooms May and June. 
New VIBURNUM, Carlcephalum (pages 8 and 9). This fragrant new 
Snowball is the best shrub offered in 50 years. Modern version 
of popular favorite. (Plant Pat. No. 776). 
New LILAC, Primrose (page 157). Only yellow lilac in existence. 
Created a sensation at Chelsea Show in London. Flowers are soft, 
cream-yellow. 
New LIGUSTRUM Vicari (page 133). Lovely golden foli- 
age of this dwarf Privet is colorful for edging walks or 
beds. Slow growing, remains nice and dwarf. 
New MALUS, Crimson Brilliant (page 163). Deepest pure 
red Crab ever offered. Exquisite semi-double flowers are 
vivid crimson. Hardy as an Oak. 
and see page 7 for the exciting new Forsythia, Lynwood Gold; Dwarf Red Barberry, 
Crimson Pygmy and Caryopteris, Heavenly Blue. Three of the finest shrubs you ever 
saw. 
CYTISUS, Battandieri 
She Choicest of “Roses 
ALL-AMERICA WINNERS for 1955 
QUEEN ELIZABETH, New (page 104). First Grand- 
iflora to win AARS award. Tall, free flowering 
plants produce clustered blooms of delicate 
pure pink. 
JIMINY CRICKET, New Floribunda Rose (page 91). 1955 AARS. Tanger- 
ine-red buds open to coral-orange, finishing a\pink-coral. The color never 
turns blue or becomes unpleasant. 
SUPERB NEW INTRODUCTIONS FROM ENGLAND 
FRENSHAM is the finest red Floribunda Rose yet .. (page 87). This vigorous 
growing, Gold Medal Award Winner has clear, clean, crimson-vermilion- 
red flowers of tea-rose shape. Foliage is a healthy rich green. 
ENA HARKNESS. Hybrid Tea Rose. Favorite red rose in England. Flowers 
are beautifully formed and elegantly pointed petals remind one of the 
true Tea pee Gracefully formed petals are waxy and of velvety clear 
crimson-red. 
New Polyantha Rose, Charlie McCarthy (page 104). Sparkling as its name- 
sake. 18 inches high bushes produce unending| show of glistening white 
Roses all season. Plants grow 2 ft. or more in diameter. 
Hybrid Tea Rose, Helen Traubel (page 97). Clear pastel tones of pink to 
apricot even approaching orange at times. Unusually long, graceful bud. 
Floribunda Rose, Lilibet (page 90). 1954 AARS winner. This dainty new 
Floribunda is destined to be carried into the hearts of Rose lovers every- 
where. 
Floribunda Rose, Vogue (page 92). Iridescent, brilliantly glowing, begonia- 
rose flushed with salmon. Flowers are perfectly formed. 
Floribunda Rose, Ma Perkins (page 90). Ophelia-shaped buds start a trans- 
lucent Fashion color fortified by shades of red in the outer petals. Flowers 
burst open to coral-shell with a suffusion of yellow. 
Hybrid Tea Rose, Mojave (page 98). Radiant orange is dominant, high- 
lighted by flame-like tones of scarlet and vermilion. Produces an amazing 
number of long stemmed buds. 
Hybrid Tea Rose, Butterscotch (page 93). This gorgeous rose continues to 
delight gardeners everywhere with its warm, glowing color and artistic 
shape. No other color like it in Roses. 
Floribunda Rose, Fashion (page 88). Coral-pink overlaid with gold. Rich 
Oriental red buds open into 31-inch blooms of clear coral. 
New Perennials of Proven Merit 
New Campanula, Wedgewood (page 26). A perfect little gem. Dozens of 
deep Visler blue flowers look skyward from 6-inch-high cushion of deep 
green foliage. 
New Veronicas, (page 85). Three English varieties of exceptional beauty. 
Baccarole (deep rose-pink), Minuet (dusty pink), Pavane (clear pink). 
Completely hardy and very easy to grow. Bloom lavishly during July and 
August. One plant produces as many as 20 graceful flower spikes. Lovely 
for borders and cutting. 
New Giant Hibiscus (page 51). Big, exotic flowers, 12 inches in diameter, 
many 50% larger than existing varieties. White, pink, scarlet to deep 
dark red. 
See page 128 
Rare ‘Vine CLIMBING HYDRANGEA 
HYDRANGEA PETIOLARIS. While not new, this rare plant continues 
to be very scarce, Undoubtedly one of the finest vines ever offered. 
It grows well on brick or wooden walls without support. Rich, dark 
green foliage is bold, clean and shrub-like. White, Hydrangea-like 
blooms flower throughout the summer. A perfect vine for shade. 
New Phlox, Blue Ridge (page 72). Very hardy creeping Phlox. Upright 4- 
inch stems topped with clusters of the loveliest blue flowers imaginable. 
New Giant “Mums” (pages 28 and 29). Handsome flowers rival in size and 
beauty those grown in greenhouses by professional florists. 
New Dicentra, Bountiful (page 44). Finest Bleeding Heart to date. Sturdy 
plants bear fuchsia-red flowers. Spring and fall blooming. 
New Shasta Daisy, Cobham Gold (page 73). First break from white. Crested 
pone is light yellow with guard petals of creamy white. Blooms very 
reely. 
New Anthemis, Beauty of Grallagh (page 17). This ideal border plant forms 
a hugh bouquet of several hundreds of golden flowers. Grows 21 ft. 
high and 2 ft. across. 
See page 114 
Pritzer’s New Dwarf Cannas 
New pastel colored Cannas from Germany. Ideal for low plantings 
and in tubs for porch, terrace or roof garden decoration. Splendid new 
varieties bloom continuously all summer supplying color wherever 
needed. Flowers in soft, pleasing colors have lustrous green foliage. 
Grow seldom over 30 inches high. 
READ’S LARGE FLOWERED FRAGRANT PANSIES 
Offered for the first time in America 
The orginator of these wonderful fragrant Pansies (not to be confused 
with Violets) writes us as follows: 
Three generations of the Read family have devoted unlimited time and 
patience to the perfecting of this lovely fragrant strain of Pansies. For 
over 60 years they have never been grown outside of the family garden. 
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The present generation of Reads now feel they should be distributed and 
enieved sy others. 
} e Reads are an old family of nurserymen in England and only recent! 
introduced the Shasta Daisy, Esther Read. The packets will Dontain acorot 
imately 200 seeds and are priced at $1.00 each. 
