Dreer's garden book 1918 (1918) Dreer's garden book 1918 dreersgardenbook1918henr Year: 1918 222 ml j HENRTADREER MADflMAfftill CHOICE HARDY SHRUBS Berberis Dictyophylla. A new Chinese species which is entirely dis- tinct and unique on account of the young branches as well as the underside of the foliage being covered with a white bloom, giving the plant a silvery appearance, different from all other shrubs. It grows 6 to 7 feet high, has yellow flowers in spring, followed in the autumn by brilliant red berries. Good young pot-grown plants, 50 cts. each. — Thunbergi {Japanese Barberry). A bea
Dreer's garden book 1918 (1918) Dreer's garden book 1918 dreersgardenbook1918henr Year: 1918 222 ml j HENRTADREER MADflMAfftill CHOICE HARDY SHRUBS Berberis Dictyophylla. A new Chinese species which is entirely dis- tinct and unique on account of the young branches as well as the underside of the foliage being covered with a white bloom, giving the plant a silvery appearance, different from all other shrubs. It grows 6 to 7 feet high, has yellow flowers in spring, followed in the autumn by brilliant red berries. Good young pot-grown plants, 50 cts. each. — Thunbergi {Japanese Barberry). A beautiful variety with small foliage, assuming the most varied tints of coloring in the autumn, and attractive scarlet berries, which remain on the plant the greater part o{ the winter; very desirable for grouping, particularly around the base of a porch or veranda to hide the foundation; succeeds in sun or shade and is the best hedge plant we know. 25 cts. each; $ per doz. Plants for hedges offered on page 229. — Vulgaris Purpurea (Purple Barberry). Of erect, tall growth, with fine purple foliage; the young shoots are red, and in May it bears small yellow flowers, followed in fall by bright red fruit. 35 cts. each; $ per doz. — Wilsona?. An introduction from Western China, and a splendid, very dwarf, decorative Shrub, with small glossy green leaves and long spines; the foliage in the fall takes on the most beautiful autumnal red tints. 50 cts. each. Buddleia Variabilis Veitchiana (Butterfly Shrub or Summer Lilac). One of the most desirable summer flowering shrubs, beginning to bloom in July, it continues until cut by severe frost. The flowers are of a pleasing shade of violet-mauve, and are borne in dense cylindrical spikes, which, under liberal cultivation, are from 12 to 15 inches in length by 3 inches in diameter; it succeeds everywhere and flowers freely the first season planted, and is always admired. 30 cts. each. Amplissima. Of rather looser and more graceful
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