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Title: Armstrong Nurseries
Identifier: armstrongnurseri1936arms (find matches)
Year: 1936 (1930s)
Authors: Armstrong Nurseries (Ontario, Calif. ); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) California Catalogs; Nursery stock California Catalogs; Fruit trees California Catalogs; Ornamental trees California Catalogs; Shrubs California Catalogs; Flowers California Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental California Catalogs
Publisher: Ontario, Calif. : Armstrong Nurseries
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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The Showy Ruellia Ruellia macrantha. Brazil. 4-5 ft. One of the showiest and most everblooming of flower- ing shrubs for a mild climate, producing free- ly all over the large foliaged plant big, dark lavender, funnel-shapped flowers almost the entire year around, even through the winter. 25°. Part shade. 6-inch pots, $1.00; 4-inch pots, SOc. Sutera Sutera grandiilora. (South Airica). 2 ft. 22°. If you like blue flowers, we highly rec- ommend this new introduction from South Africa, for the 4-inch clusters of flowers at the ends of the upright branches are a lovely clear bluish-lavender—the same color that you see in distant California mountains on a clear fall day. Blooms all through the late summer and fall. Likes the sunshine, even though it may be pretty hot, and is seemingly very easy to grow almost anywhere. See illu- stration below. Gal. containers, 75c; 4-inch pots, 50c. Solanum Solanum Rantonneti. 22°. A magnificent half-shrub, half-climber from the woods of Paraguay. The flowers are borne in great clusters, each flower one inch across of a lovely violet color. One of the finest sea- coast plants that we have, furnishing color almost the year around. Full sun. 5-gal. con- tainers, l'/2-2 ft., $1.50; gal. containers, 50c. Solanum lanceolatum. (Mexico). 6 ft. 22°. A large foliaged, fast growing, big, rounded shrub which bears at almost all times during the year clusters of big 11/2 inch bright blue flowers. Because of its rapidity of growth and its almost perpetual bloom it makes a good filler for sunny spots where growth is needed quickly. Cal. containers, SOc. The Trumpet Bushes Tecoma garrocha. An extremely handsome Trumpet Flower bush from Argentine, which grows to 6 or 8 feet and produces throughout the spring and early summer many brilliantly colored yellow and scarlet trumpet-shaped flowers in clusters. 20°. 5-gal. containers, $1.50; gal. containers, 50c. Tecoma stans. 6-10 ft. 25°. Big, fast grow- ing shrub, smothered in late winter with many spikes of 2 inch bright yellow trumpets. See illustration below. Free blooming and very showy. Full sun. 25°. 5-gal. containers, 3-4 ft., $1.50; gal. containers, I'/a-Z ft., 50c. PITTOSPORUM RHOMBIFOLIUM Thryallis braziliensis. (Mexico). 4 ft. A plant that we consider just about perfect for the average California garden because it grows easily under all conditions of soil and climate, stands heat, drouth and considerable cold, is attractive in appearance with loner 2-inch leaves, and from July to January is cov- ered with star-shaped yellow blooms in many flowered panicles, each flower % of an inch across. A most satisfactory plant because of its ease of growth and long blooming season. Full sun. 24°. 5-gal. containers, 11/2-2 ft., $2.00; gal. containers, 75c. Autumn Color Stranvaesia davidiana. 10 ft. Zero. A splen- did large Chinese shrub little known in Cali- fornia, with glossy 4-inch leaves which turn brilliant shades of red and orange in the fall, although they do not drop. Also has great quantities of brilliant fruits like little red ap- ples, and is one of the most colorful and valuable large shrubs for California gardens because of the new picture that it presents in each season of the year. 5-gal. containers, 2-4 ft., $1.50; gal. containers, l'/2-2 ft., 50c. The Purple Princess Flower Tibouchina semidecandra grandiilora. (Bra- zil). 6 ft. An improved, large- flowered form of this colorful plant (which used to be called Pleroma), with soft velvety bronze-green foli- age and quantities of glorious 4-inch royal purple flowers, borne almost 8 months in the year. Full sun. 25°. 5-gal. containers, $1.50; 6-inch pots, 75c; 4-inch pots, 50c. Viburnum Viburnum tinus. "Laurustinus." 10 ft. 15°. South Europe. Well-known winter flowering shrub, covered with flesh-colored blooms when flowers are scarce. A splendid large hedge. Full sun. 5-gal. containers, l'/2-2 ft., $1.25; gal. containers, 35c. Viburnum suspensum. 8 ft. 15°. A luxuri- ant mass of shiny dark green leaves from the South Sea Islands. Sun or shade. Best near coast. 5-gal. containers, 2-3 ft., $1.35; gal. containers, 1-2 ft., 50c. Victorian Rosemary Westringia rosemariniiolius "Victorian Rose- mary." 3 ft. 20°. A bushy little shrub only recently introduced from Australia. The branches and underside of the leaves are covered with short white hairs give the plant the appearance of Rosemary. Small white flowers are produced in great profusion ail over the plant. We like this shrub very much. Gal. containers, 60c; 4-inch pots, SOc. THE COLORUL FLOWER OF RUELLIA
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