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Title: Illustrated descriptive catalogue of fruit and ornamental trees, small fruits, vines, roses, shrubs, etc., etc.
Identifier: CAT31284796 (find matches)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: McNary & Gaines; Xenia Star Nurseries; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) Ohio Xenia Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs
Publisher: Xenia, Ohio : McNary & Gaines
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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58 ORNAMENTAL DEPARTMENT.—WEEPING DECIDUOUS TREES. MOUNTAIN ASH i Pyrus Sorbus). Weeping Aciiparia i)endiila i-Tliebranches of This disiinct variety are of a strag- ghng. pendant character, turning and twlstingin all directions and producing a very pleasing effect. Covered during the Autumn with bright red berries. MULBERRY Morus). Teas Weeping —The mo.st graceful and hardy Weepingtreein existence. Wholly unlike anything heretofore introduced. Forms perfect umbrella-shaped head, with long, slender, willowy branches, drooping to the gi'i innd. All who have seen it agree that in light, airy grace- fulness, delicacy of form and motion, it is without a rival. It will undoubtedly taketheforemost place amougAVeeping trees : it has beautiful foliage: is won- deiTully vigorous and healthy; is one of the hardiest, enduring the cold of the North and heat of the South: safe and easy to transplant. Admirably adapted for ornamenting small or large grounds, or for cemetei-y planting. Trees are four to six feet high. WILLOW iSalix . NewAmerican Weeping Americana pendula\ —An American dwarf variety, which, when grafted on a standard stem, five or six feet high, makes one of the most ornamental of small weeping trees, j having long, slender shoots and deli- cate leaves of great beauty and very graceful. Kilmarnock Weeping i Caprea pendula;—A distinct variety, having reddish shoots and large, glossy foliage: grafted at a 1 proper height, about live feet from the ( ground.it makes a very desirable small I lawn tree, having a perfect umbrella- shaped head, and with the branches drooping gracefully to the gi'ound. and is well suited for planting in cemetery lots or other small enclosures. Exten- I sively planted, and should be in every collection of ornamental shrubbery. I Hardy and of vigorous growth. Siebold"s Weeping iSieboldii pendula)— Very graceful and ornamental. Wisconsin Weeping—Valuable on account of its hardiness. Weeping i Babylonica)—Our common, well- known weeping variety: forms a large. ' round-headed, graceful tree: requires i plenty of room, and where space can be 1 spared, is quite desirable.
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Weeping Mountain Ash.

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