. Descriptive catalogue and price-list of native plants of the southern Alleghany Mountains including deciduous and evergreen trees, flowering shrubs, hardy herbaceous perennials, vines, orchids, ferns, aquatics and bog plants. Nurseries (Horticulture) North Carolina Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. LINVILLF, NORTH CAROLINA, U. S. A. CORHUS, continued flow ev Each. scarcely less so in fruit, wh'ch is b/ight scarlet, and remains on the tree till late in the season. It is one of the best of autumn coloring trees, the foliage turning early in the fall, i to 2 feet . .$0 20 2 to 3 feet 30 C.
. Descriptive catalogue and price-list of native plants of the southern Alleghany Mountains including deciduous and evergreen trees, flowering shrubs, hardy herbaceous perennials, vines, orchids, ferns, aquatics and bog plants. Nurseries (Horticulture) North Carolina Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. LINVILLF, NORTH CAROLINA, U. S. A. CORHUS, continued flow ev Each. scarcely less so in fruit, wh'ch is b/ight scarlet, and remains on the tree till late in the season. It is one of the best of autumn coloring trees, the foliage turning early in the fall, i to 2 feet . .$0 20 2 to 3 feet 30 C. alternifolia (Blue Dog- wood). "The most dis- tinct and picturesque of this whole family. The foliage is very good, and the branches, which are smooth and glabrous throughout, are disposed in whorls with wide spaces between these an- nual circles, and assume a horizontal habit as the tree grows older, which makes the whole plant a series of parallel layers of foliage. A very beau- tiful shrub, and highly useful to landscape gar- ;â/â '. L. I'cmple. 1 to 2 feet 20 2 to 3 feet 30 3 to 4 feet 40 CRATAEGUS CruE-galli (Cockspur Thorn). A small, dense growing, well shaped tree produc- ing a mass of fine white flowers in April and May, and large red fruit i n fall, which is fine for I to 2 feet 20. FR.'VXINUS i^Ash). fine foliage and (See cut.) I foot . making conserves; valuable as a hedge plant FRAXINUS Americana (White Ash). A large forest tree of quick growth ; very extensi\'ely used in street planting. 2 to 3 feet 3 to 4 feet, very fine 4 to 5 feet, very fine FAGUS ferruginea (American Beech) All agree that this is one of our noblest native trees ; makes a large tree with a smooth trunk, with whitish-gray bark and wide spreading branches, i to 2 feet HALESIA tetraptera (Snowdrop or Silver-bell Tree) A most beautiful orna- mental tree, growing here in our mountains 40 to 50 feet high, and i to 2 feet in diameter. The plants bloom while quite small, prcducing a
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