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Title: Descriptive catalogue of ornamental trees, shrubs, vines, evergreens, hardy plants and fruits
Identifier: CAT31285273 (find matches)
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Thomas Meehan and Sons; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock, Pennsylvania, Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture), Pennsylvania, Catalogs; Trees, Seedlings, Catalogs; Ornamental shrubs, Catalogs; Flowers, Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental, Catalogs; Fruit, Catalogs
Publisher: Germantown, Pa. : Thomas Meehan & Sons
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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HIBISCUS SYRIACUS. (Rose of Sharon.) The fact that the Rose of Sharon, —or Althaea, as it is familiarly called,—produces its showy flowers in August, makes it well-known and practically indispensable where a number of flowering shrubs are planted. Our illustration of a very large specimen shows the customary pro- fusion of flowers, of which the most are double. There is a wide range of colors, as will be seen by the list of varieties. It stands the sharpest kind of winter pruning, making a good hedge plant, for which it is often used. Hibiscus Syriacus. (Rose of Sharon.) HIBISCUS. ALTEL3CA. Rose of Sharon. HibiSCUS SyriacuS. Rose of Sharon. (6 to 8 ft.) These are extremely useful shrubs, blooming in great profusion at a season of the year when but few shrubs flower. The diversity of color in the different sorts makes it possible to use them in larger quantities in small places than would otherwise be the case. They are so well known that they need no description, every garden in the country possessing one or more of them. They make very pretty flowering hedges, and by trimming them in the winter only—never in the summer—it does not prevent their flowering, as is the case with nearly all other flowering shrubs. (Read pruning of " Flowering Shrubs," pages.) See illustra- tion. 18 to 24 in. Cuttings $ 25 each $1 25 per 10 $ 7 00 per 100 2 to 3 ft. Trans 25 " 175 " 10 12 00 " 100 3 to 4 ft. " 35 " 2 25 " 10 18 00 " 100 41 var. anemonseflorus. UghtRed. " Var. ardenS. Double Lilac. " var. atrorubens. Dark Red. " var. b'lCOlor. Cream, Crimson Flaked. " var. Boule de Feu. violet Pink. " var. CamellsefloruS. White, Pink Centre. " var. carnation. Double White, striped with Red. J* var. COerulea. Double Blue. Hibiscus var. Comte de Flandre. Double Dark Red. " var. Due de Brabant. Dark Rose. " var. elegantissima. white, pink centre. " var. Lady Stanley. Double White, tinged Pink. " var. Leopoldi. Flesh, Shaded Rose. " var. pseonseflorus. RosyPurpie. " Var. ranunCUlSefloruS. White, Crimson Centre. " var. Spec'lOSUS. White, Blueish Shade. " var speciosus ruber. Red. " Var. variegatUS. Leaves variegated ; flowers reddish pur- ple, but never expanding more than half way. Price of Variegatus. 18 to 24 in. Trans $ 35 each $2 50 per 10 Single Sorts. " Single White, rose centre. " TotUS albuS. Pure White, single. " Single Red. " Single Pink. HIPPOPH^J. Sea Buckthorn. Hippophse rhamnoides. (6 to 8 ft.) a rigid growing shrub, with leaves of silver color on the underside. 12 to 18 in. Trans $ 25 each $2 00 per 10 $15 00 per 100 2 to 2l/2 ft. " 35 " Bicolor and Totus albas are two excellent varieties of the Hibiscus.

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