. Descriptive catalogue of fruit and ornamental trees, small fruits, vines, shrubs, roses, plants, Nursery stock Iowa Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Ornamental trees Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. C. L. WATROUS' DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 17 CATALPA SPECIOSA—Very large leaves, rapid growth, showy flowers in July, perfectly hardy in central Iowa; the timber is much esteemed for cabinet work. CHESTNUT, American or' Sweet Chestnut—Well known, beautiful tree, valuable for fruit and timber, should be planted only on thin, dry soils. RUSSIAN MULBERRY—This very ha
. Descriptive catalogue of fruit and ornamental trees, small fruits, vines, shrubs, roses, plants, Nursery stock Iowa Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Ornamental trees Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. C. L. WATROUS' DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 17 CATALPA SPECIOSA—Very large leaves, rapid growth, showy flowers in July, perfectly hardy in central Iowa; the timber is much esteemed for cabinet work. CHESTNUT, American or' Sweet Chestnut—Well known, beautiful tree, valuable for fruit and timber, should be planted only on thin, dry soils. RUSSIAN MULBERRY—This very hardy and vigorous tree was at first recommended for timber and for fruit. It is worthless for those purposes, but seems to be the best thing for a quick growing windbreak and snow- break yet discovered. LARCH, European—Most elegant lawn tree, hardy, rapid grower, valuable for timber if allowed age, must be planted early in spring. MOUNTAIN ASH—Very hardy, handsome, with fine clusters of scarlet ber- ries hanging on the trees in winter, a beautiful tree for the lawn. Many others can be furnished in limited quantities. WEEPING TBEBS. MOUNTAIN ASH, European Weeping— A strong grower, remarkably pendant, perfectly hardy, succeeds admirably on the prairie. BIRCH, Cut Leaved Weeping—Erect, stately, rapid, hardy, with long slender pendant branches, delicately cut leaves and silvery white trunk, especially fine when near evergreens, the most elegant weeping tree on the list. WILLOW, Kilmarnock Weeping—One of the \ery finest weepers, but the stock upon which it is usually budded, is not perfectly hardy in exposed situations. ORNAMENTAL SHRUBS. AMERICAN STRAWBERRY TREE, Euonymus—A beautiful native shrub or small tree growing six to ten feet high, with a spreading, graceful habit, handsome foliage in early summer, becoming loaded with the peculiar seed pods from which it derives its name. Strawberry tree. In Autumn and Winter one might well imagine it to be a tree loaded w
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