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118. SEED CATALOGUE AND GARDEN GUIDE.

[image] AZALEA MOLLIS.

HARDY SHRUBS.
If you have a home of your own better add permanent improvements by setting out an assortment of hardy shrubs. It costs but little to begin with and you will in a few years have a place to be proud of. There is nothing which so quickly, and for so little cost, adds so much to the beauty, cheerfulness and homelike appearance of a place as an assortment of hardy shrubs. Our price is for strong, healthy plants sent by mail or express prepaid.
LILY OF VALLEY SHRUB, (Andromeda.)--One of the beautiful flowering shrubs and one which is very highly prized and sought after in Europe where they consider it one of the finest of all American plants. It is of dwarf, compact growth (2 to 3 feet high), the foliage is a rich dark green similar to Privet and in June it is loaded with a great profusion of spikes of bloom three to eight inches in length. The flowers are pure waxy white, drooping like little bells and bear a great resemblance to Lily of the Valley. It is almost an evergreen, but should be protected with straw during coldest winter weather. Each 40c.
AZALEA MOLLIS.--Showy, hardy plants, used extensively in parks and public grounds. The brilliancy of their yellow, orange and carmine flowers is not approached by anything in the line of hardy shrubs. Excellent for the front of borders or clumps of taller growing shrubs. A row of these 300 feet long on our place attracted great attention last summer. Each 60c.
SAMBUCUS AUREA.--The beautiful golden leaved Elder, so showy on lawns. Each 30c, small 15c.

[image] LILY OF VALLEY SHRUB.

HYDRANGEA PANICULATA GRANDIFLORA--The grandest as well as the most popular of all shrubs, and hundreds of thousands of them are sold every year and the demand is constantly increasing. Unsurpassed for the lawn, as a hedge or for cemetery planting. It readily attains a height of 5 to 7 feet; hardy in all localities, needs no protection in winter; blooms the first and every season in July and August and continues in bloom for two or three months; the flowers are massive, cone-shape, often measuring 10 inches in length, and have a pleasing variation of color, changing from the original pure white to pink, and finally a beautiful, rich coppery red. Each 15c, doz. $1.25. Large dormant plants each 35c; doz. $2.50.
CALYCANTHUS.--A beautiful sweet-scented shrub; flowers purple, quite double, exquisitely fragrant and borne in profusion during the entire season. Each 20c.
FLOWERING ALMOND.--One of the earliest flowering and finest shrubs. Loaded with double pink flowers which attract a great deal of attention. Each 35c, small 20c.
WHITE FLOWERING ALMOND.--A charming variety, fully equal to above, but with snowy white flowers. Each 40c, small 20c.

[image] JAPAN SNOWBALL.

[image] HYDRANGEA PANICULATA GRANDIFLORA.

DEUTZIA--Pride of Rochester.--By far the handsomest variety of Deutzias. It is a very desirable shrub of strong, hardy growth with nice luxuriant foliage and bearing an abundance of beautiful racemes of double, pure white flowers. Must be seen to be appreciated. Every one of our customers should have at least one of these. Strong plants, each 25c, small 15c.
DEUTZIA--Wateri.--A grand variety with large flowers borne in large, loose racemes. Small 15c.
DEUTZIA--Crenata.--Flower double white, tinged with pink. Small 15c.
JAPAN SNOWBALL.--A valuable improvement on the common snowball, the flowers being smaller and more numerous, there frequently being as many as twenty balls on a stem 18 inches long. Balls all face upwards and thus better show their beauty. Each 35c.
EXOCHORDIA GRANDIFLORA.--(Pearl Bush.)--A neat, compact bush 10 to 12 feet high; can be trimmed any desired shape; flowers borne in slender racemes of 8 to 10 florets each, on light and wiry branches that bend beneath their load of bloom just enough to be airy and graceful. Hardy; flowers pure white. Each 25c.
FORSYTHIA.--(Golden Bell.)--A fine, hardy shrub of weeping or pendulous habit; deep green leaves, brignt [bright] yellow flowers; blooms early. Each 25c, small 10c.
PURPLE FRINGE--A large shrub with long feathery flower stalks, which give the tree the appearance of being covered with a cloud of smoke. Each 25c.
BRIDAL WREATH.--(Spirea Prunifolia.) A beautiful common shrub; blooms in May with long sprays of beautiful flowers; the sight is one which attracts the attention of everyone. Plant is of symmetrical growth, and bears the long, graceful sprays of flowers in profusion. Each 20c, small 10c.

NOTICE our list of Flower Seeds and remember that we grow them ourselves.

SNOWBALL.--A well known and popular shrub, which grows to large size, covered with dense, spherical clusters of white flowers, which gives it its name. Each 25c.
LILAC, Persian.--A well known, strong growing shrub, bearing large fragrant clusters of purple flowers early in spring. Each 20c.
LILAC, White.--Like above but has white flowers, making it more desired by some. Each 25c.
LILAC, New Double White.--A novelty of great merit and the finest flowering shrub which has been introduced for many years. The truss is of immense size and they are produced in profusion, blooming even the first year that the plants are set out. The individual flowers resemble miniature tuberoses and are deliciously fragrant. This is a novelty which will surprise and please everyone. 50c.
ELEAGNUS LONGIPES.--A very desirable nearly evergreen shrub; the branches are thickly studded with tiny brown dots or scales, giving a rusty appearance, contrasting strikingly with the light hue of the foliage, which is silvered on the under surface with little white scales. The crop of orange-colored fruit is dotted with small ferruginous specks. Each 25c.

[image] PRIDE OF ROCHESTER DEUTZIA.