. Armstrong Nurseries . alifornia and Arizona. The flowers of the different varieties vary from light todeep yellow, presenting a gorgeous appearance when in full bloom. Acacia armata. (Kangaroo Thorn). An in-teresting shrub of spreading habit with smallleaves. The flowers are small and are borneall along the branches in spring. A good hedgeshrub. 25c to 50c. A. cultriformis. A dwarf-growing variety,with bluish foliage and small peculiarly-shapedleaves ; bright yellow flowers. 3 to 4 feet, 50c. A. baileyana. One of the most strikinglybeautiful of the Acacias, having glaucous greenpinnated foli
. Armstrong Nurseries . alifornia and Arizona. The flowers of the different varieties vary from light todeep yellow, presenting a gorgeous appearance when in full bloom. Acacia armata. (Kangaroo Thorn). An in-teresting shrub of spreading habit with smallleaves. The flowers are small and are borneall along the branches in spring. A good hedgeshrub. 25c to 50c. A. cultriformis. A dwarf-growing variety,with bluish foliage and small peculiarly-shapedleaves ; bright yellow flowers. 3 to 4 feet, 50c. A. baileyana. One of the most strikinglybeautiful of the Acacias, having glaucous greenpinnated foliage, and covered in the earlySpring with racemes of lemon-yellow flowerswhich completely envelope the tree. It isquite hardy and blooms earlier than otherAcacias. A magnificent specimen or avenuetree. 2 to 3 feet, 50c; 3 to 4 feet, 75c. Armstrong Nurseries 44 Evergreen Trees A. floribunda. An upright grower, withlong, narrow leaves ; small, yellow flowersblooms all summer; a fine variety. 5 to 6feet, 50c ; $ per Aca c molissima A. latifolia. Tree of a spreading, somewhatdrooping habit. The flowers are yellow; leaveslance shaped. One of the best Acacias. 4 to6 feet, 50c ; $ per 10. A. melanoxylon. (Black Acacia). A tall-growing variety ; a fine tree for street planting,for which it is very popular. 2 to 3 feet, 25c ;3 to 5 feet, 50c. A. molissima. A fine, large spreading tree,with feathery foliage; fast grower; flowersyellow. 25c to 50c. A. primrosa. A new Acacia of exceptionalbeauty, having large, fern-like leaves on theAlbizzia order. Of strongest growth ; yellowishflowers produced profusely. 50c. to A. pycnantha. (Golden Wattle). A vig-orous variety with long leaves and bright yel-low flowers, showy and fragrant. 5 to 6 ft., 50c. A. salicina. A very rapid growing varietyof branching habit. Trees of this variety willafford considerable shade two years after plant-ing. Leaves are lanceolate; flowers yellowand borne in short racemes along the branchesin great
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