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Title: Descriptive and illustrated catalogue of fruit and ornamental trees, shrubs, plants
Identifier: CAT31284865 (find matches)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: William & Bernardin; Williams, Lewis; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Kansas Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs
Publisher: Parsons, Kan. : William & Bernardin
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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•26 WILLIAMS & BERNARDIN, PARSONS, KANSAS ORNAMENTAL TREES, continued. LINDEN, American. A rapid-growing, beautiful native tree, with very large leaves and fragrant flowers. LOCUST, Black or Yellow (Robinia). A large native tree of rapid growth ; valu- able for shade as well as quite ornamental. The very fragrant white or yellowish flowers are disposed in long, pendulous ra- cemes, and appear in June. MAPLE, Silver=Leaved. Of ex- cellent, rapid growth, and desir- able for immediate effect. Sugar, or Rock. For stately form and fine foliage justly ranked among the very best trees for lawn and avenue. MOUNTAIN ASH, European. A fine, hardy tree ; head dense and regular, covered from July till winter with large clusters of bright scarlet berries. Oak=Leaved. A variety with large, hoary, lobed leaves ; dis- tinct and fine. Weeping (Pyrus). A beautiful tree, with straggling, weeping branches; makes a fine tree for the lawn ; suitable for covering arbors. MULBERRY, Teas' Weeping Russian (M. Siberica pendula). A graceful and beautiful, hardy tree, forming a perfect umbrella- shaped head, with long, slender, willowy branches, drooping to the ground and gracefully sway- Silver-Leaved Maple. ing in the wind. Foliage small, lobed, and of a delightful, fresh, glossy green. The tree is exceedingly hardy, of rapid growth and abundant foliage. Admirably adapted to cemetery planting, and susceptible of being trained into almost any shape. Russian. Very hardy. PLUM, Purple=Leaved (Pncmis Pissardii). Very remarkable and beautiful, with black bark and dark purple leaves, remaining very constant in color until late in the fall. The new growth is especially bright; the fruit is also red, and said to be very good. TULIP TREE. A native tree of the Magnolia order. Remarkable for its sym- metry, rich glossy foliage, regularly distributed branches and large tulip-like flowers. WILLOW, Weeping (Salix Babylonica). Our common and well-known tree. American Weeping. An American dwarf, slender-branched species. Grafted 5 or 6 feet high it makes one of the most ornamental of small weeping trees ; hardier than S. Babylofiica. Kilmarnock Weeping. • An exceedingly graceful tree, with large, glossy leaves ; one of the finest of this class of trees. Very hardy, The branches form a close, thick, drooping head around a pillar-like stem. Trees of this class have much the same effect as statuary on a lawn, but are more beautiful. .^^Our trees are carefully grown and transplanted, so that the stock is clean and fine, with abundant fibrous roots. They transplant nicely with good care. See hints on pages 2 and 3.
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