The Guide to Garden Shrubs and Trees (including Woody Vines): Their Identity and Culture"Presents, in simple form, the descriptions and culture of the 500 species most likely to interest the average home gardener ... The book answers three significant questions: "What is that shrub or tree?" "How do I grow it?" "What can I use it for?"--Pref. Indexed, line drawings and color illustrations |
Contents
Coniferous Evergreens | 1 |
Vines | 48 |
Erect Trees or Shrubs Never Climbing or Prostrate | 77 |
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The Guide to Garden Shrubs and Trees: (including Woody Vines), Their ... Norman Taylor No preview available - 1965 |
The Guide to Garden Shrubs and Trees: (including Woody Vines), Their ... Norman Taylor No preview available - 1965 |
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½ inch long 2-3 inches long 4-6 feet high aromatic Asiatic shrub Azalea Barberry bark beneath berrylike bloom bluish branches catkins Cherry Laurel Chinese shrub compound cone Cotoneaster Crabapple cultivated Culture dense Dogwood dry capsule elliptic erect Ericaceae evergreen shrub Family fleshy flower cluster Flowers white foliage fourths as wide fragrant Fruit full sun green greenish grown hairy half as wide handsome Hardy from Zone hybrid shrub Hydrangea inches long inches wide inconspicuous japonica leaf leaflets Lilac lobes Magnolia marginal teeth moist native shrub native tree nearly as wide nearly round Negligible oblongish Oleaceae opposite ordinary garden soil ovalish pea-like persistent petals Pine pink pinkish plant not illustrated profuse purple Related plant Rhododendron Rose scarlet shade showy shrub shrub or small shrubby small tree solitary species spiny Spiraea stalked stalkless Tamarix terminal clusters three fourths twigs usually Varieties Viburnum vine white flowers winter witch-hazel yellow Zone 3 southward