. Revised, illustrated and descriptive catalogue of fruit and ornamental trees shrubs, roses, bulbs and bulbous plants, grape vines, small fruits, pretty shrubs of medium natives of China and Japan. The flowersare drooping, yellow, and appear very early inspring before the leaves. The best very earlyflowering shrubs. Fortunes Forsythia.—Growth upright, foli-age deep green, flowers bright yellow. Viridissima.—A fine hardy shrub. Leavesand bark deep green, flowers deep yellow, veryearly in spring. HALESIA Halesia (Snow Drop Tree).—Silver Bell. Abeautiful large shrub with handsome
. Revised, illustrated and descriptive catalogue of fruit and ornamental trees shrubs, roses, bulbs and bulbous plants, grape vines, small fruits, pretty shrubs of medium natives of China and Japan. The flowersare drooping, yellow, and appear very early inspring before the leaves. The best very earlyflowering shrubs. Fortunes Forsythia.—Growth upright, foli-age deep green, flowers bright yellow. Viridissima.—A fine hardy shrub. Leavesand bark deep green, flowers deep yellow, veryearly in spring. HALESIA Halesia (Snow Drop Tree).—Silver Bell. Abeautiful large shrub with handsome white bell-shaped flowers in May. Very HONEYSUCKLE, UPRIGHT—Lonicera. The following species and varieties are oferect, shrubby habit, and form beautiful speci-mens when properly trimmed: Red Tartarian.—A well known old fashionedsort which blooms in May. It has slender andupright branches, with small bright pinkflowers followed by red or orange yellow berries. White Tartarian.—Same as the Red Tartar-ian, except in its beautiful white flowers, forreason of which it is fine for planting withother varieties for Hydrangea 58 PERRY NURSERY COMPANY, ROCHESTER, N. Y. HYDRANGEA. Beautiful free flowering shrubs, bearing im-mense punit-les or trusses of flowers. Panicu-lata and Arborescens are hardy and require noprotection; the other varieties require protec-tion in winter and should be grown in pots orboxes and wintered in the cellar. Arborescens Grandiflora Alba.— (Hills ofSnow)—This hardy American shrub is thevery finest addition to this class of plantsfound in many a year. The blooms are of thevery largest size, of pure snow-white color,and the foliage is finely finished, lacking en-tirely the coarseness found in Hydrangea pan-iculata grandiflora. One of its most valuablecharacteristics is its coming into bloom justafter the passing of all the early spring shrubs,while its long season of bloom, from early Junethrough August, renders it dou
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