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Title: Choice selections in seeds and plants
Identifier: choiceselections1892frpi (find matches)
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: F. R. Pierson Co; Pierson, F. R; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) New York (State) Tarrytown Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs
Publisher: Tarrytown, N. Y. : F. R. Pierson
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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BETULA LACINIATA, "Cut-Leaved Weeping- Birch," a beautiful tree, erect, slender, drooping gracefully, foliage elegant and light, baric snow-white; nice young trees 2 to 2X ft., 50 centseach; much larger, 5 to G ft. SI .50 each. BETULA PAPYRACEA, "Paper or Canoe Birch," bark brilliant white, and separates in large pieces. Very distinct, 8 ft., 75 cents each. CALYCANTHUS FLORIDUS, Strawberry Shrub." The well-known sln-ub: flowers double purple, very fragrant. 3 fi., bush v. June. 25 cents each. CATALPA BIGNONOIDES, " Syringsefolia," effective, tropical-look-' ing lawn-trees, with very large, showy, fragrant blossoms, white and purple, in pyramidal clusters a foot long, flowering in July, when few trees are seen in bloom. 75 cents each. CARAGANA ARBORESCENS. "Siberian Pea-tree," a beautiful shrub, very ornamental, bearing clusters of showy, yellow flowers in May; strong young plants, 25 cents. CERCIS CANADENSIS, "Red bud,"cr" Judas Tree," a very valuable and showy tree for the lawn, bearing beautiful pink flowers in great profusion in May; elegant, 3 to 4ft., very fine, 50 cents each. CEONANTHUS AMERICANUS, "New Jersey Tea," a low, neat shrub, flowering in dense clusters, fairly covering it; flowers white, fragrant; blooms in June and July. 25 cents each. CHIONANTHUS "VTRGINICA, " Fringe Tree." A choice lawn-tree of neat, rounded habit of growth, with large, dark green glossy foliage, and producing in June large numbers of showy racemes of pure white feathery flowers. Verv choice; strongvoungplants,50 cents each. CORNUS SIBERICA, " Red-Twigged Siberian Dogwood." Wonder- ful color; 3'^ ft.; 50 cents each. CORNUS SIBERICA VAR. Variegated-leaved Dogwood. 18 inches, 35 cents; 3 ft., 75 cents each. CYDONIA JAPONICA, "Scarlet Japan Q,uince," blooms very early in spring; 1 to Wz ft., 25 cents each; $15.00 per 100. Very nice and bushy; fine for hedges. CORCHORUS JAPONICA. Double yellow flowers, about an inch in diameter along the branches, in midsummer 3 to ft., 25 cents each. DEUTZIA GRACILIS, a fine little compact, hardy shrub, forming a round and compact mass of white when in bloom; used for forcing for winter flow- ers, the sprays of bloom being very white and graceful; blooms in June. \% to 2 ft. 25 cents each. DEUTZIA FORTUNII or SCABRA, rough-leaved; single white flowers; identical with " Crenata fl. pi." in every respect, except the flowers are not double; 3 ft. 25 cents each. DEUTZIA CRENATA, Fl. PI., flowers double; pinkish white, in spikes five inches long; one of the most satisfactory shrubs, tall, and of rapid growth, blooming first season planted. 3 ft., verv bushy. 25 cents each. DEUTZIA CANDIDISSIMA PLENA, like the above in general habit of growth, with pure white double flowers. 3 ft. 25 cents each. EXOCHORDA GRANDIFLORA. Unquestionably one of the choicest contributions to the long list of floral beauties that we have received from Japan, forming finally a neat compact bush 10 to 12 ft. high. The flowers- are borne in slender racemes of eight or ten florets each, on light drooping branches, giving a peculiarly graceful appearance to the bush. They are 1 !2 inches in diameter, the petals pure snowy-white, the calyx and receptacle showing a small dot of green in the center of each, while the unexpanded buds are like small, round buttons or beads of pearly whiteness. There is a delicate fragrance which adds to the charm of these beautiful blossoms. Price, 3 ft., 50 cents each; larger plants, 75 cents each. ELJEAGNUS LONGIPES, new "Japanese Olive." A fruit-bearing ornamental shrub from Japan: the fruit is borne in great abundance the whole length of the branches. It ripens in July and August; about the size of a cherry, with a rich, sprightly flavor, much more luscious than any cherry. ORDERS FOR ALL HARDY SHRUBS AND TREES SHOULD REACH US BY MAY 1st., AT LATEST, AFTER WHICH DATE GROWTH BEGINS, WHEN IT IS TOO LATE TO REMOVE FROM OPEN GROUND AND SHIP LONG DISTANCES.
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