. Hardy stock for pleasure grounds. Nursery stock New Jersey Elizabeth Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. American Cornus floriday have that sketchy picturesqueness, suggesting Japan, a tincture of which is considered so essential in all art nowa- days. Ellwanger rates C florida next to the magnolias as a spring-flowering tree, and next to the scarlet oak in brilliant autumn foliage. The Red-Flowering Dogwood differs from the White only in the color of its flowers, and it blooms at an even earlier age. Japanesque, too, we may certainly call the pr
. Hardy stock for pleasure grounds. Nursery stock New Jersey Elizabeth Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. American Cornus floriday have that sketchy picturesqueness, suggesting Japan, a tincture of which is considered so essential in all art nowa- days. Ellwanger rates C florida next to the magnolias as a spring-flowering tree, and next to the scarlet oak in brilliant autumn foliage. The Red-Flowering Dogwood differs from the White only in the color of its flowers, and it blooms at an even earlier age. Japanesque, too, we may certainly call the pretty Pagoda Tree, with drooping, creamy clusters of pea-shaped flowers; the dwarfed Japan Tree Lilac, so absent-minded that it forgets to open its white flowers till a month after other lilacs are gone; the Double-Flow- ering Plum, and that daintiest of all small flow- ering trees, the Japan Pink Weeping Cherry, spreading its arms wide, only to sweep them at last in rich bloom-wreaths upon the grass. Some later splendors of spring, lasting in some cases into midsummer, are the daz- zling golden Laburnum, the Golden Chain, or "Golden Rain" of the Germans; the Silver Bell, or Snowdrop Tree, smothered with daintiest white drooping bells in May; and the White and Purple Fringe Trees. Parsons compares the latter (also called Smoke Tree) to a cloud of smoke suffused with sunlight ! Both the Fringes are choice bits of bric-a-brac for any lawn. They are small, dense, round-headed and their fragrant clouds of mist-like flowers show to great advantage against some burly evergreen. The Double-Flowering Thorns are. Sixteen Hiram T. Jones. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Union County Nurseries.; Jones, Hiram
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