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Title: Descriptive catalogue : ornamental trees, shrubs, vines, evergreens, hardy perennials and fruits
Identifier: CAT31285688 (find matches)
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Thomas Meehan and Sons; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Pennsylvania Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Pennsylvania Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Ornamental shrubs Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs
Publisher: Germantown, Pa. : Thomas Meehan & Sons
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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DECIDUOUS TREES
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Magnolia macrophylla- (aotojoft.) 3 to 4 ft. Trans $ 75 each " tripetala. (umbrella.) (25 to 30 ft.) See illus tration and description on opposite page. 5 to 6 ft. Trans $ 75 each « to 7 ft. " 100 " $7 50 per 10 * to 10 ft. " 1 50 " 12 50 •' 10 3 ft. Heavy specimens. 2 00 to 2 50 each MAGNOLIA. Chinese and Japanese Sorts. The Chinese and Japanese sorts are not as large- growing as the native ones, their maximum height being aboHt twenty to thirty feet. They can either be trimmed up to a single stem,—tree form,—or allowed to grow bushy as shrubs, in which form the height could be kept to within ten to fifteeu feet. When wanted in tree form, it should be so stated when ordering. Magnolias should be severely pruned when transplanted, and unless they have been in pots, only moved in spring. Magnolia COnspiCua. Chinese White. (20 to 25 ft.) One of the most esteemed of all. The large, pure white flowers expand about the 2oth of April, before the leaves. It can be grown as a large shrub •r a« a small tree. 254to3ft. From pots....$1 00 each $9 00 per 10 3 to 4 ft. " .... 1 50 " 13 00 " 10 7 to 8 ft. Trans 2 50 " ** gracilis. ('O to 12 ft.) a shrub-like kind, much like purpurea, but with darker purple flowers, which expand about the close of April. Suitable for mass- ing in beds of shrubbery. 2 to 3 ft. Trans $ 75 each 4 t» 5 ft. 1 50 " " KobuS (Thurberl). (20 to 25 ft.) Japane.se. Small white flowers appear early, about the same time as those of conspicua do. It does not bloom freely until it gets of good size. The fruit pods take on all sorts of grotesque shapes. 2 to 3 ft. From pots $1 00 each 3 to 4 ft. " I 50 " 5 ft. Trans 2 00 " " Norbertiana. 5 to 6 ft. Trans $200 each " Soulangiana. (15 to 20 ft.) Perhaps the most popular of all magnolias, being of vigorous growth, and blooming profusely, even when quite small. The flowers are large, pink on the outside of petals and white inside. In average seasons the flowers open in the third week in April. It can be grown as a small tree or large shrub, as a single specimen or in masses. 2 to 3 ft. Trans $ 50 each $ 4 00 per 10 $35 00 per 100 4 to 5 ft. " 75 " 6 00 " 10 50 00 " 100 6 to 7 ft. " 1 50 " 12 00 " 10 5 ft. Trans, very heavy... 2 00 " 20 00 " lO 8 ft. " " bushy... 2 50 " 25 00 " 10 " SpeclOSa. (15 to 20 ft.) Resembles the preceding sort a great deal. It is rather later in opening its flowers in spring, and the flowers are larger and of a darker pink. 18 to 24 in. from pots $ 75 each $ 6 50 per 10 5 to 6 ft. Trans 175 " 15 00 " 10 " stellata (Halteana). (stoioft.) a dwarf, bush-growiug, most valuable species. The flowers are white, tinted with pink in the bud, semi-double, fragrant, and appear as early as the I5th of April. The earliest of all to flower. It is one of the best for massing, as well as for a specimen shrub. 12 to 18 in. From pots $1 00 each $ 8 00 per 10 18 to 24 in. " " 1 25 " lo 00 per 10 Teas' Weeping Mulberry. MORUS "TEAS' WEEPING." (Mulberry.) Perhaps no other weeping tree that is grafted on stems has such a beautiful habit of growth. The numer- ous, long, slender branches fall to the ground, sweeping it frequently by a foot or more. The illustration hardly does justice to. the beautiful foliage ; nor does it show the great quantity of branches, making a dense mass of leaves and wood. The height of the plant never increases beyond a few feet, being grafted on a foreign stock. We have a few grafted on quite tall stems. CPrices on page 18.) We grow a large aiid fine stock of Slagiiulia SoalaiiglauH.

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