. Dreer's garden book / Henry A. Nursery Catalogue. Hydrangea Paniotlata Grandiflora Erica (Heath) Most of these Heaths are compact, low-growing, and extremely useful for rockeries. The small foliage is densely arranged around the wiry stems, and either in full bloom or in mid-winter they make a very pretty picture. Give some protection the first winter to acclimatize them. Semi-shady location. Vagans {Cornish Heath). Compact growing evergreen Shrub with dark green small foliage and pale purplish red flowers in August and September; 12 inches. A good rock plant for a semi-shaded positi
. Dreer's garden book / Henry A. Nursery Catalogue. Hydrangea Paniotlata Grandiflora Erica (Heath) Most of these Heaths are compact, low-growing, and extremely useful for rockeries. The small foliage is densely arranged around the wiry stems, and either in full bloom or in mid-winter they make a very pretty picture. Give some protection the first winter to acclimatize them. Semi-shady location. Vagans {Cornish Heath). Compact growing evergreen Shrub with dark green small foliage and pale purplish red flowers in August and September; 12 inches. A good rock plant for a semi-shaded position. Vulgaris (Calluna vulgaris). {Scotch Heather). A dense-growing Shrub, with erect branches, covered with short, closely lapped leaves. The pretty, bell-shaped flowers are rosy lavender and occur in great profusion toward tops of the shoots. — Alba. Pure white. — — Aurea. A pretty gold leaved form of the white variety. — Rubra. Rosy carmine. Strong plants, 60 cts. each; one each of the five varieties for $ Euonymus Alata {Corkbark). A Shrub different in character from others, having an individuality of its own. It is particularly orna- mental and interesting on account of its curious corky bark. The small yellow flowers of the spring are followed by attractive red berries in the fall. It is also valuable on account of its bright scarlet autumn foliage which makes it very conspicuous in the fall. Strong plants, 75 cts. each. Europaeus {Burning Bush). A conspicuous Shrub which in the autumn and winter is loaded with scarlet seed-pods from which orange colored berries hang on slender threads. 75 cts. each. Forsythia (Golden Bell) Spectabilis. Strong, tall growing with very large flowers completely covering the stems with its golden-yellow bloom. Suspensa {Weeping Golden Bell). A tall Shrub of willowy growth, the branches gracefully arching, covered with golden bells in early spring. Viridissima {Golden Bell). Strong erect habit; bright yellow bell like flowers in ea
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