. Descriptive catalogue of ornamental trees, shrubs, vines, evergreens, hardy plants and fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture), Pennsylvania, Catalogs; Trees, Seedlings, Catalogs; Ornamental shrubs, Catalogs; Flowers, Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental, Catalogs; Fruit, Catalogs. Magnolia purpurea (obovata.) (Stoioft.) Therearebut few shrubs among vaaguolias such as this is. The growth is stock}-, forming a thick bush. The large, purple flowers appear at the beginning of May, and it is two to three weeks later before all are expanded. A useful sort for massing or planting with shrubs. 2 ft. Trans $ 35 ea
. Descriptive catalogue of ornamental trees, shrubs, vines, evergreens, hardy plants and fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture), Pennsylvania, Catalogs; Trees, Seedlings, Catalogs; Ornamental shrubs, Catalogs; Flowers, Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental, Catalogs; Fruit, Catalogs. Magnolia purpurea (obovata.) (Stoioft.) Therearebut few shrubs among vaaguolias such as this is. The growth is stock}-, forming a thick bush. The large, purple flowers appear at the beginning of May, and it is two to three weeks later before all are expanded. A useful sort for massing or planting with shrubs. 2 ft. Trans $ 35 each $2 50 per 10 4 ft " . 75 " 5 00 " 10 7 ft. Bushy 1 00 to $2 00 each " Soulangcana. (15 to 20 ft.) Perhaps the most popular of all magnolias, being of vigorous growth, and blooming pro- fusel}-, 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. See illustration page i6. 18 to 24 in. Trans $ 35 each $2 50 per 10 $15 00 per 100 3 to 4 ft. " 50 " 4 00 ' 10 4 to 5 ft. " 75 " 5 00 " 10 5 to 6 ft. " 1 00 " 7 50 " 10 7 to 8 ft. 1 50 to $2 50 each " SpeciOSa. (15 to 20 ft.) Resembles the preceding sort a great deal. It is rather later in opening its flowers in spring. 2 ft. From pots $ 75 each " stellata (Halleana), (8 to lo ft.) a dwarf, bush- growing, most valuable species. The flowers are white, tinted with pink in the bud, semi-double, fragrant, and appear as early as the 15th 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 IS in. From pots. $ 75 each $5 00 per 10 18to 24in. " " .... 1 00 " 7 50 " 10 MELIA. Pride of China. Melia Azedarach. (25 to 30 ft.) This, though barely hardy here, is a popular shade tree in t
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