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Title: Catalogue of trees, shrubs, evergreens and herbaceous plants
Identifier: CAT31284912 (find matches)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Shady Hill Nursery Company; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) Massachusetts Boston Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Shady Hill Nursery Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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70 CATALOGUE OF TREES, SHRUBS, AND VINES. upright form; narrow, willow-like leaves; white flowers in July. This is our native Meadow Beauty, and is very pretty. 25 cents. S. SOrbifolia. Ash-leaved Sjnroea. 4 to 5 ft. July. Handsome foliage resembling the Mountain Ash. Long, showy panicles of white flowers. A fine Spiraea. 35 cents. S. Thunbergii. Thunberg's Spiraea. 4 to 5 ft. April and May. Japan. Low-growing, rounded form, delicate, drooping, yellowish-green lanceolate foliage, which takes and retains late the most lovely tints in autumn. Small, abundant white flowers in May. One of the most charming of all low-growing shrubs. The earliest of Spiraeas, and one most generally grown. 25 and 35 cents. S. trilobata. St. Peter's Wreath. 2 ft. May. Pure white flowers in numerous dense heads. 35 cents. S. ulmifolia. Elm-l eared Spircea. 3 ft. July. Elm-like leaves, and large clusters of white flowers. 35 cents. S. Van Houtteii. Van Houtte's Spircea. 4 to 5 ft. June. The finest and most satisfactory of all Spiraeas, either singly or among other shrubs. It forms a round and graceful bush with arching branches, which, in June, are set from end to end with the beautiful white blos- soms. A shrub which cannot be overlooked. 25 and 35 cents. (See Herbaceous Spirceas.) STAPHYLEA — Bladder nut. S. Colcliica. 5 ft. June. A fine, early-flowering shrub, with fragrant white blossoms. It partially winter-kills in Xew Eng- land and needs protection. 50 cents. STEPHANANDRA. S. flexUOSa. 3 to 4 ft. July. This is an especially attractive new shrub from Japan, of low, dense growth, qualifying it for planting in the foreground of shubberies or in isolated spots, where its very peculiar and deeply cut foliage, which is the feature of the shrub, can be seen to advantage. It is beauti- ful and interesting through the entire season, and is one of the best of recent introductions. 35 and 50 cents.
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STYRAX JAPONICA. STYRAX. S. Japonica. Japan. Low-growing shrub, or dwarf tree; small, dogwood-like leaves and smooth bark ; branches horizontal, and very picturesque in appearance. Flowers small, white, and bell-like in shape, hanging along the branches. 75 cents. STUARTIA. S. pentagynia. July. A most charming low tree or shrub of compact habit and rich foliage. It produces in July abundant white, saucer-shaped flowers of large size, with purple

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